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Four of the more than 200 youngsters taken from their school in Nigeria by Islamists last month manage to flee from captivity. With another 50 believed to have escaped also
Four of the kidnapped Nigerian girls being held by Boko Haram militants have escaped, a local education official has said. Reuters reported that the election commissioner in Borno state – the state where the girls were abducted from – revealed the four had managed to get free but declined to give further details of the escape. It leaves 219 still missing, according to official figures. The youngsters were taking exams at a secondary school in the remote northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 when gunmen from Boko Haram surrounded it, loaded them on to trucks and carted them off.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
I"m glad some got away. I worry for those still being held. What gets me ... the idiots who kidnapped the girls are saying that all the girls 'converted to Islam'. Do they actually believe that the girls converted in their hearts and didn't just say the words to save their lives? It's beyond sick and stupid ...
originally posted by: FlyersFan
I"m glad some got away. I worry for those still being held. What gets me ... the idiots who kidnapped the girls are saying that all the girls 'converted to Islam'. Do they actually believe that the girls converted in their hearts and didn't just say the words to save their lives? It's beyond sick and stupid ...
originally posted by: undo
the article is confusing. it says 200 girls - 54 who have escaped = 219 girls. isn't that more like 273 girls - 54 who have escaped = 219 remaining?
Scores of residents in four villages in the northeastern Borno state of Nigeria, near the border with Cameroon, were killed Tuesday in Boko Haram raids, a lawmaker and residents said.
They said hundreds of homes were destroyed.
Heavily armed gunmen dressed as soldiers in all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles attacked Goshe, Attagara, Agapalwa and Aganjara villages in Gwoza district, shooting residents and burning homes.
www.cnn.com...