15 children 'in chains' freed from Nigeria religious school

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KANO, NIGERIA - Police have freed 15 children from an Islamic school in central Nigeria where they were kept in chains and tortured, police said on Tuesday .

In the house where they were found,"three chains used to tie their legs were also recovered", he said. Informal Islamic religious schools, called almajiri schools, are common in Nigeria, where there is a chronic lack of government services.

 

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