Nearly seven years after more than 200 girls were abducted by their school in Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram, more girls have fled and reunited with their families.
Emmanuel Ogebe, a Nigerian human rights lawyer, told ABC News on Thursday that a father informed him that his daughter had escaped from the militant group.
“Mr. Ali Maiyanga’s two daughters were part of the few Muslim schools taken with most of the Chibok Christian girls. The information we currently have indicates that there are other army fugitives that parents are eagerly waiting to identify,” he said. dir Ogebe.
Maiyanga was able to speak with his daughter on Thursday, according to the report.
Boko Haram, a militant group with a name meaning “Western education is banned,” an exclusively female boarding school attacked in 2014. The attack resulted in the abduction of 276 girls at midnight.
Maiyanga’s daughter is not the only one who has escaped Boko Haram this week. Lawal Zannah, secretary of the Chibok Parents Association, said others have also fled.
It is not the first time girls have been abducted by Boko Haram. Other girls have escaped from their captors before or have been released after negotiations.
Boko Haram has been terrorizing Nigeria since 2009 and pledged its allegiance to ISIS in 2015. It is not yet known what happened to some of the girls after they were abducted.