Six of
the 219 Chibok schoolgirls abducted in 2014 by Boko Haram are dead, activists
and local officials have quoted one of the girls rescued Tuesday as saying.
Nineteen-year-old
Amina Nkek was rescued in Kulakaisa village at the fringes of Sambisa forest,
by a Chibok vigilante group, the sources said.
A
source familiar with the rescue said Ms. Nkek was breast feeding a child.
After
she was taken to Chibok, where she was identified by her parents, Ms. Nkek told
the community leaders that “all the girls are in Sambisa forest, but six of
them had died”, a source told Premium Times.
The
source quoted Ms. Nkek as saying that the remaining girls were “well secured
and protected” to stop the Nigerian Army from rescuing them.
He
added that the girl was taken to the army unit in Damboa, Borno state.
The
army said in a statement that “one of the abducted chibok school girls, Falmata
Mbalala, was among the rescued persons by our troops at Baale near Damboa”.
The
statement, signed by army spokesperson, Sani Usman, did not say why the names
differed.
The BBC
quoted Hosea Abana Tsambido, the chairman of the Chibok community in Abuja, as
saying that Ms. Nkek was found by the vigilantes after venturing into the
forest to search for firewood.
Over
219 girls were abducted by Boko Haram from their school hostel in 2014.
Some
of the girls managed to escape.
The
abduction attracted global attention and the Nigerian government said that efforts
were being made to rescue the girls alive.
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