Almost 300 children freed in Nigeria more than two weeks after abduction

Parents wait for news about the kidnapped children (Sunday Alamba/AP/PA)

Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been freed more than two weeks after they were seized from a school in the north-western state of Kaduna, local officials have said.

Kaduna state governor Uba Sani did not give details of the release of the 287 students, who were taken from their school in the remote town of Kuriga on March 7.