Lagos - Nigerian soldiers have found a
schoolgirl who was one of more than 200 pupils kidnapped by
Islamist militant group Boko Haram from their school in the
northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, an army spokesman
said on Thursday.
The troops were investigating suspected Boko Haram militants
when they discovered Rakiya Abubkar, the spokesman said in a
statement. She had a six-month-old baby with her, it said.
A total of 276 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram from
Chibok in 2014 in one of the most infamous actions of their
insurgency. More than 20 were released in October in a deal
brokered by the International Red Cross. Others have escaped or
been rescued but about 200 are believed to be still in
captivity.
Boko Haram has killed 15 000 people and displaced more than
two million during a seven-year-old insurgency aimed at creating
an Islamic caliphate in northeast Nigeria.