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Nigerian parents call for return of 105 kidnapped girls

Author
AP,
Publish Date
Mon, 26 Feb 2018, 5:49AM
It is the latest major kidnapping by the group, after 276 girls, some pictured above, were taken in 2014. (Photo / Supplied)
It is the latest major kidnapping by the group, after 276 girls, some pictured above, were taken in 2014. (Photo / Supplied)

Nigerian parents call for return of 105 kidnapped girls

Author
AP,
Publish Date
Mon, 26 Feb 2018, 5:49AM

Parents in Nigeria have released a list of the 105 young women they say are still missing nearly a week after Boko Haram militants attacked a northern town, demanding that residents direct them toward the school for girls.

The fate of the girls is not yet known, though many fear they have abducted as brides for the Boko Haram extremists, who in 2014 kidnapped 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok and forced them to marry their captors. About 100 of the Chibok girls have never returned to their families nearly four years later.

In the town of Dapchi in Nigeria's Yobe state, the militants arrived on Monday evening, sending many fleeing into the surrounding bush amid the hail of gunfire.

While Nigeria's president has called the disappearances a "national disaster," local officials at first falsely indicated that some had been rescued while others would return in the coming days from hiding.

Yobe state Governor Ibrahim Gaidam put the number of missing girls in Dapchi at 84, but family members quickly refuted that.

Bashir Manzo, who has been heading up the relatives' efforts, said they only took information when a girl's mother or father appeared in person to report a missing child. His daughter Fatima is among those still unaccounted for.

"This list did not come from the school management or any government source but collated by us from the parents of the girls," he said. "As far as we are concerned, the governor is still being fed with fake information about these poor girls."

- AP

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