On the night of April 14 and 15, 2014, about 276 female students who were quietly sleeping on their school dormitory at the Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, were kidnapped and till date, 219 of the girls are still missing. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.
Before the April kidnap saga, on February 26 in Buni Yadi, Yobe State, 59 students were massacred in their sleep in their dormitories at a Federal Government College.
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