Boko Haram, an armed group fighting against Western influence, has been waging a campaign against the Nigerian government for the last several years, attacking both Christian and Muslim targets.
Tsambido Hosea Abana, a Chibok community leader in Abuja from the BringBackOurGirls pressure group, said on Twitter on Wednesday that the girl was found by civilian vigilantes in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno state on Tuesday.
Yakubu Nkeki, head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents' group, and Ayuba Alamson Chibok, a community leader in the town, also gave the same account to AFP news agency.
- The girl was apparently found wandering in the forest. She is reportedly 19 years old.
Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reporting from the northeastern town of Maiduguri said the girl, who was found pregnant and traumatised, is under the custody of authorities.
The young woman was apparently brought to Chibok on Tuesday night and reunited with her mother. Her father was said to have died while she was held captive.
"She was carrying a baby but I do not know whether it is a boy or girl," Zannah said by phone from Chibok," Lawan Zannah, secretary of the association of parents of missing Chibok girls, said.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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Chibok girls: Second schoolgirl rescued - Nigerian army...
ReplyDeleteA second schoolgirl from the more than 200 seized in the Nigerian town of Chibok has been found, the army says.
Spokesman Col Sani Usman said Serah Luka was among 97 women and children rescued by troops in operations in the north-eastern Borno State.
This comes two days after the rescue of the first Chibok girl, Amina Ali Nkeki.
In all, 217 girls remain missing after their abduction by the Boko Haram Islamist group from a secondary school in north-eastern Nigeria in 2014.....BBC