First Nigerian Chibok girl rescued from Boko Haram

One of the missing Chibok schoolgirls has been found alive, along with her four-month-old baby and a suspected member of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group.

According to Press TV, there are conflicting reports on how Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki was found on the outskirts of the Sambisa Forest area of the northeastern Borno state on Tuesday night. Nigeria’s army claimed that she was rescued by army troopers while Chibok community leaders said a vigilante group, named Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF), had found the wandering girl.

Whatever the circumstance of her liberation, she is now considered to be the first of the Chibok girls who has been rescued.

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped 276 girls from their secondary school in the northeastern town of Chibok in the troubled Borno State. Fifty-seven of the girls managed to escape afterwards, but the fate of the remaining others is still largely unknown.

According to her own account, she was fleeing an attack on Boko Haram’s camp by government forces but actually managed to find her way out of the lush jungle only to be accidentally found by rescuers.

“When she arrived in Chibok, the people of the town were so excited, they were running everywhere to see her,” said Mallam Mphur, the chair of Chibok secondary school from which the girls were abducted.

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