The families of more than 230 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by insurgents over 10 days ago say they are losing hope of seeing their daughters ever again.
The girls, aged 16 to 18, were abducted at gunpoint after Boko Haram militants overpowered a military guard assigned to a boarding school.
They had just finished their final exams. Some of the girls who escaped said the militants took the hostages to Borno’s Sambisa Forest area, where Boko Haram is known to have well-fortified camps.
Parents have trekked through the bushlands of the remote region in a search for their daughters. However the girls have not been found.
“Boko Haram” is a Islamist militant group that views all foreign education as “Haram” or proscribed and is waging a violent insurgency against the Nigerian government for implementing its own brand of Sharia rule.
