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All 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by armed assailants from a school last week in Nigeria’s Kebbi state have been rescued, the country’s president announced Tuesday.

Gunmen with “sophisticated weapons” abducted the girls around 4 a.m. on Nov. 17, police said at the time, and a statement Tuesday quoted President Bola Tinubu as saying that all 24 of the students who had been abducted were rescued.

“I am relieved that all the 24 girls have been accounted for,” the statement quoted Tinubu as saying. “Now, we must put as a matter of urgency more boots on the ground in the vulnerable areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping.”

No details were released about the rescue mission or about the group that kidnapped the girls.

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