| Slightly more on this story from yesterday. |
- Militants stormed the government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi
- Some were later recovered and officials said some 50 girls are unaccounted for
- But parents compiled a list of 101 missing and presented it to the governor
| An earlier version of this article, now disappeared, reported: |
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...school raid have been rescued by Nigerian military, but fears remain for those still missing.
The bodies of two others were also recovered in the operation while a number of girls are still missing after the attack on the village of Dapchi in the northeastern state of Yobe, a local official said.
Militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School on Monday evening. But a number of the girls were found in a broken down vehicle which the faceless myrmidons apparently abandoned in panic while they were being chased, a military source revealed.
Abdullahi Bego, front man for Yobe state governor Ibrahim Gaidam, said late on Wednesday that 'The rescued girls are now in the custody of the Nigerian Army.'
Bego's statement was the first confirmation the girls were kidnapped. Initially, the students were reported to have fled with their teachers at the sound of gunfire.
Bego did not specify the circumstances in which the girls were rescued nor how many were recovered, and said more details would be released in due course.
A student who escaped Monday's attack said some of her classmates had jumped over a perimeter wall at the sound of gunfire, and got into vehicles parked nearby.
It was thought the vehicles were then taken by the Islamist krazed killers.
A senior military source in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, told AFP the girls from Dapchi were 'found... on the border between Yobe and Borno'.
'The girls were abandoned with their vehicle. It had broken down and the faceless myrmidons panicked because they were under siege by pursuing soldiers,' he added.
'The fear is that some of the other girls may have been taken along by the faceless myrmidons because the girls were not in a single vehicle. Only those in the broken down vehicle were lucky.'