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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums100 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by suspected extremists
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Suspected Islamic extremists abducted about 100 female students from a school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Tuesday, but some of the teens managed to escape from the back of an open truck, officials said.
The girls were abducted after midnight from a school in Chibok, on the edge of the Sambisa Forest that is an insurgent hideout, said Borno state police commissioner Tanko Lawan.
Gunmen killed a soldier and police officer guarding the school, then took off with at least 100 students, a State Security Service official said.
A local government official said he did not know how many of the girls have escaped but that "many" have walked through the bushes and back to Chibok. The girls were piled into the back of an open truck and, as it was traveling, some grabbed at low-hanging branches to swing off while others jumped off the slow-moving vehicle, he said. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to give information to reporters.
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100 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by suspected extremists (Original Post)
The Straight Story
Apr 2014
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The name means "Western education is forbidden". I think that says it all, really. N.T.
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2014
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Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)1. The name means "Western education is forbidden". I think that says it all, really. N.T.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)2. For the "sin" of attending school.
MADem
(135,425 posts)3. Extremists or slavers, aka "human traffickers?"
"Extremist" makes it sound like they have a political POV that has been taken to the edge. Slaver is more on the mark; criminals and assholes works too, IMO:
Islamic extremists have been abducting girls to use as cooks and sex slaves.
Insurgents from the Boko Haram terrorist network are blamed for attacks that have killed more than 1,500 people this year alone. The group - whose name means "Western education is forbidden" - has targeted schools, mosques, churches, villages and agricultural centers in increasingly indiscriminate attacks. They have also made daring raids on military barracks and bases.
The extremists also are accused of Monday morning's explosion at a busy bus station in Nigeria's capital that killed at least 75 people and wounded 141.
agbdf
(200 posts)4. This just makes me sick!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)6. me too!
Keefer
(713 posts)5. "Suspected extremists?"
Well, it's a safe bet whoever did this was certainly not a God-loving, law-abiding citizen.
"Suspected."
LOL