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Doubts over claim suicide bomber is from Chibok Official: Arrested girl suicide bomber not a “Chibok girl”
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ABUJA, Nigeria — Parents of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram say they are waiting to go to Cameroon to identify an arrested child suicide bomber who says she is from Chibok, the northeastern Nigerian town where 276 schoolgirls were abducted at a school in nearly two years ago. ABUJA, Nigeria — A Nigerian official says a girl suicide bomber arrested in Cameroon is not one of the 276 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok nearly two years ago, but is from a nearby community.
Doubts have emerged she is one of the students since Cameroon officials said the child arrested Friday with explosives strapped to her body appears about 10 years old. The official says Cameroonian authorities gave them the names of the girl and an older accomplice but are holding them for questioning about how the Islamic extremists operate. The official is in Yaounde, the Cameroonian capital, waiting for the girls to be handed over. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is sensitive.
Chibok parent Yakubu Nkeki says he can only tell if he sees the girl. He is awaiting word from Nigeria’s government, which promised to send him to Cameroon. Nkeki’s niece was 14 when she was abducted early on April 15, 2014. Dozens of the girls escaped but 219 remain missing. In Nigeria, Chibok Parents Association chairman Yakubu Nkeki said he is waiting to go to Cameroon to see the child.
The girl, arrested Friday with explosives strapped to her body, appears heavily drugged and suffering injuries, Cameroonian officials said.
She said she was from Chibok and appeared to be about 10 years old. Nkeki’s niece was one of the youngest students abducted from a government boarding school in Chibok. She was 14 at the time of the mass kidnapping in the early hours of April 15, 2014. Dozens of the girls escaped on their own but 219 remain missing.
Boko Haram continues to kidnap even as Nigerian troops have rescued thousands from captivity in recent months. None has been from the Chibok school.
The failure of Nigerian officials and the military to rescue the girls promptly brought international condemnation and helped President Goodluck Jonathan lose elections last year.
The Chibok kidnapping propelled Boko Haram into notoriety.
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