News Direct's video: Army surrounds gunmen and their 337 child hostages

For story suggestions or custom animation requests, contact tips@nextanimation.com.tw. Visit http://archive.nextanimationstudio.com to view News Direct's complete archive of 3D news animations. RESTRICTIONS: Broadcast: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Digital: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN The governor of the Nigerian state of Katsina says the Nigerian military has found a group of gunmen and the 337 children they abducted from a government school 6 days ago. He said the group had been surrounded and negotiations have started. This is just the latest in a spate of such mass abductions of children in Nigeria. It started when a large number of gunmen riding motorbikes stormed the compound of a high school in Kankara. RUNDOWN SHOWS: 1. Army helicopter flies over hostage camp, army gets in position, infantry and tanks 2. Map zoom to show location. Start of school attack sequence. Gunmen drive up 3. Gunmen engage guards, guards return fire then run, gunmen enter school gate 4. Students running, scaling wall, hiding in bush, they see flashlights approaching 5. Flashlights revealed as gunmen, but kids thought they're guards, tricked into hostage situation 6. 520 boys taken initially. We see an eye witness escape. His view of gunmen and hostages VOICEOVER (in English): The governor of the Nigerian state of Katsina says the Nigerian military has found a group of gunmen and the 337 children they abducted from a government school 6 days ago. He said the group had been surrounded and negotiations have started. This is just the latest in a spate of such mass abductions of children in Nigeria. It started when a large number of gunmen riding motorbikes stormed the compound of a high school in Kankara. One of the boys who escaped said the attack started around 9:30 on Friday night, and that many students jumped the school fence and fled when they heard gunshots. However, they were tracked by the gunmen who had flashlights and who tricked them into believing that they were security personnel and asked them to return. The boys were then rounded up and forced to walk into the forest. The gunmen later ordered them to stop and started to count the child hostages. The eye witness said that 520 students were counted and that he did not see anyone else while he was escaping. The government has blamed the attack on Nigerian bandits who often kidnap children for ransom. SOURCES: BBC, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, NY Times https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55306811 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boko-haram-nigeria-kidnapping-kankara-hundreds-schoolboys-katsina-attack/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds-of-nigerian-boys-kidnapped-by-boko-haram-handed-over-governor-says-11608238209 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/africa/nigeria-school-attack.html *** ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­---------------- Next Animation Studio’s News Direct service provides daily, high-quality, informative 3D news animations that fill in for missing footage and help viewers understand breaking news stories or in-depth features on science, technology, and health. Sign up for a free trial of News Direct's news animations at http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com/trial/ To subscribe to News Direct or for more info, please visit: http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com