One Of The Girls Abducted By Boko Haram In Nigeria's Chibok Freed: Police

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
25 September 2014
Tags:
Cameroon, Nigeria, Conflict, Peace and Security, International Terrorism

One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok was freed this week, police and a parent of some of the other missing girls said on Thursday. Boko Haram militants took the girls from a secondary school in the village near the Cameroon border in April, sparking a worldwide outcry, and have remained in captivity ever since.

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