'Crying and moving': Nigerian schoolgirls recount forced march kidnap ordeal

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Gunmen freed all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, officials said, as victims described how their abductors had threatened to shoot them

Dozens of girls in Muslim veils sat in a hall in a state government building before being taken for medical checks. A few parents arrived, and one father wept with joy after seeing his daughter.“They carried the sick ones that cannot move. We were walking in the stones and thorns,” she said, covered in a light blue veil. “They started hitting us with guns so that we could move,” she added. “While they were beating them with guns, some of them were crying and moving at the same time.

Zailani Bappa, a media adviser to the state governor, denied that a ransom had been paid, but said the captors had been offered amnesty, as well as assistance to resettle at a site with newly built schools, a hospital and other facilities.“The process means amnesty for those who repent and will be assisted to resettle. Hence, no monetary inducement or ransom was involved in the rescue. It was a willing surrender of the girls,” he said.

The trend was started by the jihadist group Boko Haram, which kidnapped 270 schoolgirls in 2014, around 100 of whom have never been found. But recent months have seen a sudden escalation of similar attacks, including the abduction of 344 boys in December.Friday’s raid on the Government Girls Science Secondary School was the second school abduction in little over a week in the northwest.

Lawal Abdullahi, whose seven daughters were among those kidnapped and freed, said the incident would not deter him from schooling his children.

 

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Awful!

If one has a belief, it should be souly between him and his creator, sharing one's experience, is, inorder, provided no gain. Segregation is by religion in addition to, if there was no religion, just humanity, the world be a better place. Humanity should be preached.

Who were the gunmen who freeded, the abducted?

God completely destroy and eliminate these kind of evil people from the Earth and let only those who want Peace and Goodwill stay here. What’s the point of us dealing with people like this any longer?

Wonderful news.

Gunmen? You mean jihadis..

Poverty,lack of education as well as aspiration for a life of comfort n dignity may be real reasons for abduction of school children-providing basic necessities of life to every citizen ought to reduce such extreme steps to garner funds for survival-economical to provide for all

I hope the people responsible for the kidnappings and forcing these poor girls to wear those rags are caught and slaughtered.

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Now hunt them down and destroy them.

Children should never forced to wear hijab.

Does the Koran suggest that such harming of believers is permitted?

Am I seeing hijabs? I am. I like god but I really dislike some religious people.

Why liberal media use Gunmen for terrorists ?

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