Sources from military and local government said that a suspected suicide bomber was caught intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday
before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of 219 schoolgirls
kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014.
Some of the abducted Chibok girls were then handed over to Cameroonian
soldiers belonging to a multi-national force set up to take on...
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Haram. In a high-profile attack that sparked a global outcry, Boko Haram
militants raided the school in April 2014 while the girls were taking
exams. They loaded 270 of them onto trucks, though around 50 escaped
shortly afterwards.
Reuters reports that two girls carrying explosives were stopped by local self-defence forces
in the village of Limani, in an area of northern Cameroon that has been
the target of frequent suicide bombings in recent months.
“One of them indeed declared that she is one of the Chibok hostages. She
is around 15. We are now verifying, because on the Nigerian side they
have the names and photos of these girls,” said local government
administrator Raymond Roksdo.
Two military sources, who asked not to be identified as they were not
authorised to speak to the press, also confirmed that the girl had
claimed to have been one of the Chibok abductees. “We need a few days to
be able to confirm this information. We have to debrief all the men who
were present and interrogate the two girls before we can say anything,”
one of the military sources said.
May God continues to help us in this country.
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