Chibok girl found, first since abduction by Boko Haram

May 18 2016 15:33:59

Chibok girl found, first since abduction by Boko Haram

KANO - Agence France-Presse

One of the 219 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok in northeast Nigeria has been found, the first found since their seizure by Boko Haram more than two years ago, activists, the head of a support group and a community leader said May 18.

Tsambido Hosea Abana, a Chibok community leader in Abuja from the BringBackOurGirls pressure group, tweeted that the girl was found by civilian vigilantes in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno State on May 17.

Yakubu Nkeki, head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents' group, and Ayuba Alamson Chibok, a community leader in the town, also gave the same account to AFP.

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