21 Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram freed

October 13, 2016 15:17

Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the BBC.

It is thought that they are now with the security services in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri.It is not yet clear how the girls were rescued.The Islamist militant group kidnapped more than 250 students from a school in Chibok in April 2014 - an act that provoked international condemnation.

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