Nigerian children reunite with parents after being released from abduction

A freed student of St Mary’s Catholic School is reunited with his parents in Papiri, Nigeria (Afolabi Sotunde/AP)

Several parents welcomed the return of their children who were abducted last month when gunmen stormed their school in Nigeria.

The abductions, which saw more than 300 students and staff taken from St Mary’s Catholic school in Papiri on November 21, was the latest in a string of mass abductions that have rocked Nigeria in the past decade.