Dozens of children kidnapped by gunmen this month have been released as their captors cracked under military pressure, according to a Nigerian state official.

A spokesman for the Zamfara state governor said no ransom had been paid for the 75 children and that the governor received them at his headquarters, Reuters reported on Monday. The representative, who was not identified, did not say when the children had been freed.

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