Schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram 'escapes and reveals horrors faced by captives'

A Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped Boko Haram has reportedly escaped and revealed how she and her peers were forced to marry the Islamists who impregnated them and infected them with diseases. Terrorists stormed the Government Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state in April last year, seizing 276 girls who were preparing for end-of-year exams.

Fifty-seven escaped but nothing had been heard of the 219 others since May last year, when about 100 of them appeared in a video, dressed in Muslim attire and reciting the Koran.

But now, one of the girls is said to have escaped from the Lake Chad region in the north-east of the country and run into herdsmen, who helped her get to safety. The girl was taken to Baga military base where she revealed the horrors faced by the captives, a source told the Saturday Vanguard.

She said there were about 60 other girls at the camp, but others who had been kidnapped were moved elsewhere, it has been reported. The girl said they were forced to convert to Islam and anyone who refused was either beheaded or shot at point blank range. They were made to marry, and were impregnated and infected, she said.

She revealed that some of the other girls are being held captive in towns near Lake Chad in both Chad and Nigeria, the Saturday Vanguard reported.

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