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Nigeria: Over 100 Girls Missing After Boko Haram Raid on School

HeadlineFeb 22, 2018

In Nigeria, police say 111 girls went missing from a state-run boarding school in the northern town of Dapchi, following a raid by militants with the group Boko Haram. Parents of the children say fighters armed with machine guns abducted the girls, though there were conflicting reports over whether some of them were subsequently rescued by Nigeria’s military. Reuters reports two of the girls were found dead.

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