More than 100 girls 'missing' after Boko Haram school attack.

[edjr 5,547]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scores-girls-missing-boko-haram-school-attack-151308136.html

 

 

 

Damaturu (Nigeria) (AFP) - More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world.

Islamist militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening. Locals initially said the girls and their teachers fled.

But fears have been growing about the whereabouts of the students, and one schoolgirl who escaped said it was likely they were taken by Boko Haram fighters.

"We have every reason to suspect that they were taken away by the attackers," said Aisha Yusuf Abdullahi, 16, who returned to her home in Yobe's commercial hub, Potiskum.

Anxious parents and guardians converged on the school on Wednesday to demand answers, with conflicting figures as to how many girls were missing.

The Yobe state governor Ibrahim Gaidam said "over 50" remained unaccounted for while the police commissioner of the state said 111 were still missing.

"Eight hundred and fifteen students returned to the school and were visibly seen, out of 926 in the school," said state police commissioner Abdulmaliki Sumonu.

"The rest are missing. No case of abduction has so far been established," he told reporters in the Yobe state capital, Damaturu.

The length of time since the attack and Boko Haram's use of kidnapping as a weapon during its nearly nine-year insurgency has increased fears of another mass abduction.

The jihadists gained worldwide notoriety in April 2014 when they abducted 276 girls from their school in Chibok, in neighbouring Borno state.

Fifty-seven escaped in the immediate aftermath and since May last year, 107 have either escaped or been released as part of a government-brokered deal.

Abubakar Shehu, whose niece is among those missing from Dapchi, said a search of surrounding villages had drawn a blank.

"We have the fear that we are dealing with another Chibok scenario," he added.

- Confused picture -

The state-run boarding school in Dapchi caters for girls aged 11 and above from across Yobe state, which is one of three worst affected by the insurgency.

Abdullahi said Monday's attack was "a traumatic experience" and she was lucky to escape. She and others spent the evening in hiding after running to the principal's office.

"We were in the mosque and about to start evening prayers when we heard gunshots. We rushed out and ran towards the gate. It was closed," she told AFP.

"Out of panic, some climbed the fence to waiting vehicles outside and just jumped in, not knowing whose vehicles they were...

"We have not heard from those who entered the vehicles outside the school. We have the feeling they were taken by the gunmen."

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari announced after a weekly cabinet meeting that a government delegation led by the defence and foreign ministers will visit Dapchi on Thursday.

"I have directed the military and police to mobilise immediately to ensure that all the missing girls... are found," he added.

- Weapon of war -

Boko Haram has seized thousands of women and young girls, as well as men and boys of fighting age during the conflict, which has left at least 20,000 dead since 2009.

They include some 300 children who were among 500 people abducted from the town of Damasak in November 2014.

Getting accurate information from the remote northeast remains difficult. The army still largely controls access and infrastructure has been devastated by the conflict.

In 2014, the military initially claimed the Chibok students had all been found but was forced to backtrack when parents and the school principal said otherwise.

As the issue gained world attention, via the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, the then president Goodluck Jonathan was criticised for his lacklustre response.

Jonathan's handling of it was seen as contributing to his 2015 election defeat to Buhari, who promised to bring the Boko Haram insurgency to an end.

But despite Buhari's repeated claims the group is weakened to the point of defeat, civilians remain vulnerable to suicide attacks and hit-and-run raids.

The attack in Dapchi will again raise questions about the government's grip on security.

Security analysts told AFP on Tuesday that government ransom payments to secure the release of the Chibok girls could have given the under-pressure group an incentive for financing.

"They need money for arms, ammunitions, vehicles, to keep their army of fighters moving across the borders," said Amaechi Nwokolo, from the Roman Institute of International Studies.

"They're spending a lot of money on arms and logistics."

 

 

 

poor nigerians

[SUXBNME 1,322]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scores-girls-missing-boko-haram-school-attack-151308136.html

 

 

 

 

poor niger

:reported:

[edjr 5,547]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scores-girls-missing-boko-haram-school-attack-151308136.html

 

 

 

 

poor nigerians

 

[SUXBNME 1,322]

 

Yea...nice quick edit on your part, racist

[tanatastic 2,061]

It’s a strange day in Nigeria if 100 people don’t get murdered or kidnapped.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

DO NOT call it a sh1thole.

[dain11279 927]

Theres another thing thats missing....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can sizes?!?

[Strike 3,950]

Theres another thing thats missing....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can sizes?!?

 

This was my first thought

[Mungwater 588]

 

This was my first thought

Mine was maybe I can get a ticket to black panther now

[Hardcore troubadour 12,595]

#wedidntbringourgirlsbackbutletsblametrump.

[Cdub100 3,370]

Fake news violence at schools only happens in the US

[NorthernVike 2,080]

Shithole.

[SenatorRock 708]

The radical left has assured us that human trafficking does not exist and gun violence only occurs in the US.

 

FAKE NEWS.

[Kanil 519]

Focking sad. I couldn't even imagine my kid going to school one day and not coming home. I'd be absolutely devastated.

[NorthernVike 2,080]

Focking sad. I couldn't even imagine my kid going to school one day and not coming home. I'd be absolutely devastated.

I'd personally hunt the motherfockers down and kill them or die trying.

[Sho Nuff 719]

The radical left has assured us that human trafficking does not exist and gun violence only occurs in the US.

 

FAKE NEWS.

Shut up troll

[Voltaire 4,555]

I thought there were sixteen vestal virgins heading for the coast, not a hundred.

 

Oh wait no.

 

I always confuse Boko Harum with Procol Harum. These guys are a blacker shade of dark.

[SUXBNME 1,322]

I thought there were sixteen vestal virgins heading for the coast, not a hundred.

 

Oh wait no.

 

I always confuse Boko Harum with Procol Harum. These guys are a blacker shade of dark.

Pretty deep.

Not Jacqueline Bisset deep, but pretty close

[edjr 5,547]

Yea...nice quick edit on your part, racist

 

What do you call a person from Nigeria?

[Voltaire 4,555]

 

What do you call a person from Nigeria?

That's easy... Nigeria is Nigerian.

 

A problem I'm having, there's another country next to it called Niger and I never learned what to call somebody from there.

[edjr 5,547]

That's easy... Nigeria is Nigerian.

 

A problem I'm having, there's another country next to it called Niger and I never learned what to call somebody from there.

 

[lickin_starfish 1,478]

They need some common sense kidnapping control over there. The remaining un-kidnapped students should walk out of school and march until they get it.

[edjr 5,547]

That's easy... Nigeria is Nigerian.

 

A problem I'm having, there's another country next to it called Niger and I never learned what to call somebody from there.

 

What the Hell Happened in Niger?

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/niger-isis-us-soldiers-attack/543531/

[Sho Nuff 719]

What the Hell Happened in Niger?

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/niger-isis-us-soldiers-attack/543531/

Official report was supposed to be out a few weeks ago I think...still nothing that Ive seen.

Was a major fock up though.

[Cruzer 1,992]

Wow - what an unbelievably sad story... Those poor girls, there's no telling what kind of horrors they are facing.

[drobeski 3,061]

Wow - what an unbelievably sad story... Those poor girls, there's no telling what kind of horrors they are facing.

no worries, they were most likely grabbed by Muslims, they'll be treated with nothing but respect and dignity.

[edjr 5,547]

sh1thole country, who cares.

[Cruzer 1,992]

no worries, they were most likely grabbed by Muslims, they'll be treated with nothing but respect and dignity.

I seriously doubt these girls were taken in the name of religion.

[drobeski 3,061]

I seriously doubt these girls were taken in the name of religion.

well as long as it's Muslims who took them, we know they're safe.

[Cruzer 1,992]

well as long as it's Muslims who took them, we know they're safe.

Law abiding, good Muslims wouldn't have taken them in the first place... And there's plenty of them.

[Kanil 519]

well as long as it's Muslims who took them, we know they're safe.

 

There will be citizens with guns there to keep them safe too.

[NorthernVike 2,080]

I seriously doubt these girls were taken in the name of religion.

Maybe in the "Name of Love"