More female students of the Government Girls’
Secondary School, Chibok, Borno, were saved in the evening of April 16, 2014,
Wednesday, as the result of the ongoing search and rescue operations.
According to
the electronic message by the Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris
Olukolade, only 8 of the students are still missing.
The troops
were pursuing the terrorists, searching for the den of those believed to have
carried out the attack, and captured one of them.
It would be
recalled that suspected Boko Haram members raided Chibok LGA in the night of
April 14-15, 2014. They set GGSS building ablaze and abducted between 103 and
200 female students, mostly aged 16-18. Some of girls were able to escape
themselves, so the army has put the official figure of those kidnapped to 129.
In another
development, troops deployed to restore law and order in Wukari, Taraba State,
have apprehended 14 armed men who were involved in the
fighting during the civil disturbances in the town early in the
week.
The fighting
resulted in the burning of no fewer than 25 houses and displacement of over 200
persons.
The troops
also captured a building where arms were being manufactured. Four locally
fabricated machine guns, one sub machine gun, four single-barrel guns as well
as 21 live cartridges were recovered in the process. Normalcy has since been
restored as troops maintain patrols of the locality.
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