Nigeria’s government has confirmed that 110 school girls from north eastern part of the country are missing days after Boko Haram militants attacked a girls’ boarding school in the Yobe state of Nigeria.
This is the largest abduction by Boko Haram militants since over 200 Chibok school girls were kidnapped in 2014.
The information ministry said in a statement on Sunday that “The federal government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram invaded their school on Monday.”
The Nigerian Air Force also said on Sunday the chief of air staff had “directed the immediate deployment of additional air assets and Nigerian Air Force personnel to the northeast with the sole mission of conducting day and night searches for the missing girls”.
On Monday members of the group stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi with locals initially saying that the girls and their teachers fled the attack.
Over 100 of the girls were believed to be missing after they were reported to have been taken away in trucks.
School officials have said that there were 710 students at the boarding school run by the state.
Boko Haram abduction of school girls from Chibok received worldwide condemnation and campaigns for their release. Some of the over 200 Chibok girls kidnapped have been release and rescued.
Source: Africafeeds.com
