{"id":45506,"date":"2016-05-18T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=45506"},"modified":"2016-05-18T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:06:07","slug":"six-abducted-chibok-schoolgirls-dead-others-well-secured-protected-inside-sambisa-forest-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/six-abducted-chibok-schoolgirls-dead-others-well-secured-protected-inside-sambisa-forest-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Six abducted Chibok schoolgirls \u2018dead’, others ‘well secured, protected’ inside Sambisa Forest – Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activists and local officials have said that six of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls abducted in 2014 by Boko Haram are dead.<\/p>\n

The activists, quoted the 19-year-old Amina Nkek rescued in Kulakaisa village at the fringes of Sambisa forest, by a Chibok vigilante group, as saying.<\/p>\n

Ms. Nkek reportedly told the community leaders that \u201call the girls are in Sambisa forest, but six of them had died\u201d, stating that the remaining girls were \u201cwell secured and protected\u201d to stop the Nigerian Army from rescuing them.<\/p>\n

The BBC quoted Hosea Abana Tsambido, the chairman of the Chibok community in Abuja, as saying that Ms. Nkek was found by the vigilantes after venturing into the forest to search for firewood.<\/p>\n

Over 219 girls were abducted by Boko Haram from their school hostel in 2014.
\nSome of the girls managed to escape.<\/p>\n

The abduction attracted global attention and the Nigerian government said that efforts were being made to rescue the girls alive.<\/p>\n

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