Nigeria: Parents and relatives gathered at the site of mass abduction of the school girls

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CHIBOK, 15 April, 2021 (TON): In the memory of seven years old abduction of hundreds of school girls, the parents and relatives gather for prayers at the Chibok School.

Several more mass kidnappings of schoolchildren have occurred in northern Nigeria since Chibok, resulting in hundreds of schools being shut in a region where the literacy rate and school enrolment are already very low.

On 14 April, 2014, the rebel group Boko Haram gunmen seized 276 girls aged between 12 and 17 from the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state.

The rights group Amnesty International stated, "Although most escaped or were later released, more than 100 girls remain in captivity." 

However, there have been at least five mass abductions of schoolchildren in northern Nigeria since December, and the threat of further attacks has led to the closure of about 600 schools in the region, the rights group said.

 

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