body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_65264A1C-38F6-9657-A0A3-F16D17CC893B" style="box-sizing:border-box; color:#262626; font-family:CNN,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Utkal,sans-serif; font-size:1.2rem; font-weight:300; line-height:1.66667; margin-bottom:15px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px; text-align:justify" LAGOS — Hundreds of schoolgirls that were kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigeria have been rescued, authorities said. div class="zn-body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_33A1F576-65EB-FCDB-149B-F1708ED7D188" style="background-color:#fefefe; box-sizing:border-box; color:#262626; font-family:CNN,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Utkal,sans-serif; font-size:1.2rem; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:300; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:1.66667; margin-bottom:15px; margin-right:0px; text-align:justify; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px"The 279 girls were abducted on Friday by armed men who raided their state-run school in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara State, a high-ranking government official with knowledge of the incident said.