Their release was met by tearful loved ones.

On February 17th, 42 people, including 27 students, were abducted by an armed gang that stormed a secondary school in *** State.

One boy was killed during the raid.

One remains in the hospital, according to the *** State governor.

Also on Saturday, police mounted a search for 317 school girls who were abducted Friday in a nearby states.

Concerned parents waited in the school compound for updates.

One of them said he was hopeful his daughter would be brought back home, saying the captors were bandits.

They are already appetite and so I know I believe when the government sector with them they were the military lease our daughters.

Schools have become targets for mass kidnappings for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed groups whose agenda is unclear.

The highest profile school kidnapping was that of more than 270 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014.