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Scores of girls ‘missing’ after Boko Haram attack on Yobe school
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Fears grew in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday about the fate of
potentially scores of girls who have not been seen since
a Boko Haram attack on their school two days ago.
Militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in
Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening. Locals initially said the girls
and their teachers fled the attack.
The jihadists gained worldwide notoriety in April 2014 when they
abducted 276 girls from their school in Chibok, in neighbouring Borno
state. A total of 112 are still being held.
Monday’s incident sparked fears of a repeat and on Wednesday morning
some 50 parents and guardians gathered at the school demanding
information.
“Our girls have been missing for two days and we don’t know their
whereabouts,” Abubakar Shehu, whose niece is among those missing, told
AFP.
“Although we were told they had run to some villages, we have been to
all these villages mentioned without any luck. We are beginning to
harbour fears the worst might have happened.
“We have the fear that we are dealing with another Chibok scenario.” Some belongings left by the students after the attack. Source: Sahara Reporters
According to school staff, there were 710 students at the state-run boarding school, which caters for girls aged 11 and above.
Inuwa Mohammed, whose 16-year-old daughter, Falmata, is also missing,
said it was a confused picture and that parents had been frantically
searching surrounding villages.
“Nobody is telling us anything officially,” he said. “We still don’t
know how many of our daughters were recovered and how many are still
missing.
“We have been hearing many numbers, between 67 and 94.”
Police in the state, which is one of three in the northeast Nigeria
worst-affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, said they have no reports
of abductions following the attack.
Yobe’s education commissioner, Mohammed Lamin, said the school had
been shut and a roll call of all the girls who have returned was being
conducted.
“It is only after the head-count that we will be able to say whether any girls were taken,” he said.
Some of the girls had fled to villages up to 30 kilometres (nearly 20 miles) away through the remote bushland, he added.
Boko Haram has used kidnapping as a weapon of war since its
insurgency began in 2009, seizing thousands of women and young girls, as
well as men and boys of fighting age.
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