Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Authorities in Nigeria have recovered 15 schoolchildren who were snatched by kidnappers earlier this week, a police spokesman said Friday.
The children were rescued by police late Thursday in southeastern Nigeria's Abia state, according to Yeni Ajayi, a deputy National Police spokesman. He added that the four gunmen holding them escaped.
The gunmen boarded a school bus carrying the nursery and elementary school children from Abayi International School on Monday and took them away.
There were questions as to whether the children were foreigners because they attended the international school.
The kidnappers contacted the children's school, located near the city of Aba and demanded 20 million naira -- around $130,000.
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