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1st LD Writethru: One of Nigeria's missing Chibok girls found

Xinhua, May 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

One of Nigeria's missing 219 Chibok girls has been found by a local vigilante group on a rescue mission in Sambisa Forest, a large training ground of Boko Haram in the northeastern state of Borno, local sources said on Wednesday.

Bukky Shonibare, a leader of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement in the West African country, said the girl, identified as Amina Nkeki, was found on Tuesday by the Civilian Joint Task Force.

Nkeki, a native of Mbalala, a community in Chibok, is the first girl to be rescued among 219 others whose whereabouts remained unknown.

Another member of the strategic team of the BBOG movement told TheCable, a local online newspaper, that Yakubu Nkeki, chairman of the parents of the kidnapped Chibok girls, confirmed this to members of the BBOG on Wednesday.

Boko Haram, a Nigeria-based terror group, said it was responsible for the abduction of the girls in their school dormitory in Chibok on April 14, 2014.

A total of 276 girls were abducted while 57 managed to escape. Enditem