Dozens of Nigerian girls feared abducted by Boko Haram

Dozens of schoolgirls are feared to had been abducted by individuals of the Boko Haram armed neighborhood after their college in northeastern Nigeria became attacked this week. 

A police commissioner in Nigeria’s Yobe instruct talked about as many as 111 girls were silent unaccounted for after warring parties attacked a secondary college in the town of Dapchi on Monday, forcing crew and students to soar.

Abdumaliki Sunmonu told Al Jazeera a roll name had proven 815 out of 926 students were help at Authorities Ladies College by Tuesday around noon (Eleven:00 GMT). 

Sunmonu talked about he might perchance now now not verify whether or now now not any of the missing students had been abducted; now now not all of the girls are dwelling on the boarding college and some might even merely now now not had been new on the time of the raid. 

« It be a truly still danger, » Sunmonu talked about.

The Yobe instruct govt talked about on Wednesday more than 50 students were silent unaccounted for. 

In spite of the dearth of confirmed info, the incident has raised fears among other folks, who talked about it reminded them of a mass abduction conducted by Boko Haram warring parties in April 2014.

On the time, the armed neighborhood abducted 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from the town of Chibok.

« Our girls had been missing for two days, and we assemble now now not know their whereabouts, » Abubakar Shehu, whose niece is among the many missing students, told AFP news company on Wednesday.

« Even when we were told they had hurry to a pair villages, now we had been to all these villages talked about without any success. We’re beginning to harbour fears the worst can beget occurred.

« We beget got the phobia that we are going by contrivance of any other Chibok danger. »

Numbers unconfirmed

Sunmonu talked about the college’s predominant « insisted » no young other folks were taken out of the college when the suspected Boko Haram attackers entered.

He told Al Jazeera the gunmen stole meals items and were chased away by the defense force at around 20:00 GMT on Monday.

Al Jazeera became now now not in a put of dwelling to independently verify how many students remain unaccounted for.

Two unnamed sources told Reuters news company that Ninety one schoolgirls were feared missing as of Tuesday. 

Larger than 20,000 other folks had been killed and two million others forced to soar their properties in northeastern Nigeria since Boko Haram launched an elevate up in 2009 aimed at increasing an Islamic instruct.

Over the years, the armed neighborhood has kidnapped 1000’s of adults and young other folks. 

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari now now not too long in the past talked about the technology of Boko Haram violence « is gradually drawing to full ».

On the other hand, the neighborhood continues to originate attacks in the country’s northeast, and its leader remains at gigantic.