Rescued girls not Chibok girls, says Nigerian Army

Semiu Salami
Semiu Salami
Some of the escaped Chibok girls in Abuja

The Nigerian army has stated that the rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Boko Haram camps during a military operation in Sambas Forest are not the school girls abducted from Chibok community more than a year ago by the Boko Haram insurgents.

An army spokesman told AP news agency on Tuesday that the 293 females were not the girls abducted from Chibok a year ago.

Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, sparking an international outcry.

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