Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Rescued girls not Chibok girls - Nigerian Army


Reporting on our yesterday's story about the over 200 women rescued ny the Army, the Nigeria’s army has stated that the rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Boko Haram camps during a military operation are not the school girls abducted from Chibok community more than a year ago by the Boko Haram insurgents.

An army spokesman told AP news agency on Tuesday that the 293 females were not the girls abducted from Chibok a year ago.
Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, sparking an international outcry.
Army spokesman: 293 females rescued in northeastern Nigeria are not girls abducted from Chibok.

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