Tuesday, May 20, 2014
234 girls are 'missing' from Nigerian school attacked last week by Islamic extremists - significantly more than the 85 initially reported by education officials
Almost three times as many schoolgirls as previously thought were seized from an exam hall by violent Islamist extremists, it has been claimed.
A statement by officials had said that 85 girls aged 16-18, who were sitting a physics exam, were kidnapped from the school in Chibok, Nigeria last week.
But today the governor of the region, who visited the town today, said that grief-stricken parents told him officials had ignored them when drawing up the list of 85, and that in fact 234 girls had been taken.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2609709/234-girls-missing-Nigerian-school-attacked-week-Islamic-extremists-significantly-85-initially-reported-education-officials.html#ixzz32FG73Q3V
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