Four abducted Chibok schoolgirls have been supposedly freed from
the camp of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram located in Cameroon.
A teenage boy, also a hostage, helped the girls to get out of the camp, British newspaper TheSundayTimes reported.
The liberated girls, who are between 16 and 18 years of age, give hope for more than 200 other girls who remain missing.
The
report by the British newspaper, backed by their American colleagues
from New York Post, stated four of the Chibok girls were hiked three
weeks through jungle following the setting sun and finally came to a
Nigerian village, looking shabby and distressed.
Upon hearing the news, the controversial negotiator said in a brief
comment to the newsmen that the girls were amazing, as they managed to
escape and to find way back to thier home country. “They are the only ones that have escaped from a Boko Haram camp,” he added.
According to Stephen Davis the girls had been told that if they run away from Boko Haram, their families would be destroyed.
More
than 200 girls were abducted from their boarding-school dormitory in
northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram terrorists six months ago, on April
14, 2014.
The case generated world outrage and a big campaign
calling for their release, partly propelled by the hashtag
#BringBackOurGirls.
The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, a
couple of weeks after the abduction released the video in which he said
that he would never free girls. He claimed that they had become slaves
of Boko Haram and that they would stay slaves forever.
About a week later, another video was released, showing about 136 girls covered in Muslim shawls and garb reciting the Koran.
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