At least 100 girls abducted

It is believed that these girls were abducted by a radical Islamic group, Boko Haram.

 

Boko Haram means ‘Western education is forbidden’. They are waging for a militant campaign for a fundamentalist state.

 

Several reports state that armed men stormed a dormitory and forced these girls into idling trucks.

 

"Three men came into our room and told us not to panic," a girl who escaped told the BBC. "We later found out they were among the attackers," said the student, who asked that her name not be used.

 

The girls were driven away in a convoy that later stopped because some of its trucks broke down.

 

Several students ran off, she said.

 

"We ran into the bush and waited until daybreak before we went back home," she said.

 

An earlier strike this year by Boko Haram killed 59 students, all of them male. The boys died after extremists set fire to their dormitories.

 

The militant group, founded in 2002, is also considered responsible for Monday's bombings in Abuja, which killed 70 people.

 

Boko Haram opposes Western education and wants Nigeria to become an Islamic state.

 

- BBC