Many Kidnapped Borno School Girls Freed, says Nigeria's military

Chris Olukolade

Nigerian director of defence information, Major General Chris Olukolade

Nigeria military forces said on Wednesday that most of the girls abducted by people suspected to be members of Boko Haram terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, a community in Borno State Monday evening have been released.

“With this development, the Principal of the school has confirmed that only eight of the students are still missing,” armed forces spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade said in a statement sent to media.

He did not specify exactly how many of the girls had been rescued, but said one of the “terrorists” involved in the abduction had been captured

Earlier reports indicated that some of the girls had on their own earlier escaped from the kidnappers.

“More of the abducted students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State have this afternoon been freed as troops pursuing the terrorists close in on the den of those believed to have carried out the attack.

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“A total of 129 students had earlier been abducted by a group of terrorists,” said Olukolade.

General Olukolde also revealed in the statement that troops deployed to restore law and order in Wukari, Taraba State, have apprehended 14 armed men who were involved in the fighting during the civil disturbances in the town early in the week.

The fighting resulted in the burning of no fewer than 25 houses and displacement of over 200 persons.

“The troops also captured a building where arms were being fabricated. Four locally fabricated machine guns, one sub machine gun, 4 single barrel guns as well as 21 live cartridges were recovered in the process. Normalcy has since been restored as troops maintain patrols of the locality

“Security forces have been directed to continue with the tempo of offensive on all the terrorists’ enclaves anywhere in the country,” said Olukolade.

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