BOKO HARAM Kidnaps Another 110 Girls In Raid Of School In Northern
Nigeria Week Ago
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Frightened students
are staying away from the school in northern Nigeria where Boko Haram
extremists seized 110 girls in a raid a week ago.
The Government Girls Science and Technical College in Dapchi in Yobe
state had been closed following the attack that reminded many of Boko
Haram's kidnapping of 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok in
2014.
Teachers resumed classes Monday but students were absent.
One parent, Mohammed Mele, says his two children are too scared to
return. Another parent says they are looking for a new school for their
children.
Yobe state education commissioner Mohammed Lamin says students are still
going through trauma and the school will reopen when "frayed nerves cool
down."
Nigeria's government for the first time Sunday acknowledged that 110
girls remain missing.