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| A girl looks out from her bombed school. Courtesy Getty Images. |
For two weeks now, the residents of Chibok in northern Nigeria have been living every parent’s worst nightmare. On April
14, over 200 girls were kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok, likely by
the militants of Boko Haram, an extremist Islamist group that has been terrorizing Nigeria since 2009. While schools including that of the girls were closed recently due to
militant attacks, the students had returned to sit for their final exams.
Around midnight on April 14, militants stormed the student dorm and carried away the
approximately 234 female students on motorbikes and trucks. They are now
reportedly held in nearby Sambisa Forest, a 60 square kilometer area that has become
a stronghold
of Boko Haram.
