Nigerian police rescue hundreds from another 'torture house'

A boy shows his marks of torture pictured on September 26, 2019 in the Rigasa area of Kaduna in northern Nigeria where 300 male students of "different nationalities" were rescued by police from an Islamic seminary where they were tortured and sodomised. FILE PHOTO | AFP

What you need to know:

  • Police in northern Nigeria said on Monday they rescued over 300 young men from an Islamic boarding school where they were chained and sexually abused.
  • Thy were "subjected to inhuman conditions," with some of the students revealing that they were sodomised by their teachers.
  • Last month, police in nearby Kaduna state, freed more than 300 male students from a similar boarding school where they were chained, tortured and sexually abused.