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Nigeria unrest: 'Attackers abduct 200 schoolgirls' | |
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Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, parents say. | Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, parents say. |
Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel's teenage residents on to four lorries. | |
Parents told the BBC's Hausa service that at least 200 girls had been abducted. The attackers are thought to be from the Islamist group, Boko Haram. | |
On Monday, bombings blamed on the group killed more than 70 people in Abuja. | |
Speaking after the latest attack, a student, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC that she had escaped after seeing her classmates jumping out of the back of a lorry. |