Kano (Nigeria): 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, the second such operation in a month. A police team raided the school in Daura in Katsina state after some students escaped from their hostel on Sunday and poured into the streets in protest. Katsina police chief Sanusi Buba told reporters in Daura that the young men were chained and tortured.

"We learnt that the inmates here are over 300 and because of the inhuman treatments they are being subjected to they revolted yesterday (Sunday)," he said. "Some of the inmates escaped while...about 60 of them stayed back," he said, with most of them found in chains. Buba said the school was established by 78-year-old Muslim cleric, Bello Mai Almajirai, 40 years ago. He later transferred management of the school to his son.