{"id":402766,"date":"2018-02-20T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=402766"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:07:26","slug":"nigerian-girls-escape-boko-haram-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=402766","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian girls escape Boko Haram attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Schoolgirls and teachers in north-eastern Nigeria have escaped an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, witnesses say.<\/p>\n<p>They say the militants in pick-up trucks arrived in the town of Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening, shooting and setting off explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Alerted by the noise, staff and students were able to flee.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the north-eastern town of Chibok.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and civilian militia in Dapchi say they believe the jihadists had planned to kidnap schoolgirls in their town too.<\/p>\n<p>After finding the school empty, the militants looted the building.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/15F17\/production\/_100097898_nigeriadapchi4640218.png\" alt=\"map\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>They say that Nigeria&#8217;s security forces &#8211; backed by military jets &#8211; later repelled the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, a group of more than 100 of the Chibok girls were reunited with their families at a party in the capital Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the group were released in May as part of a controversial prisoner swap deal with the Nigerian government that saw five Boko Haram commanders released.<\/p>\n<p>But more than 100 schoolgirls are still being held by Boko Haram, and their whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram militants have been fighting a long insurgency in their quest for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The conflict is estimated to have killed tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>The Chibok girls represent a fraction of the women captured by the militant group, which has kidnapped thousands during its eight-year insurgency in northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schoolgirls and teachers in north-eastern Nigeria have escaped an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, witnesses say. They say the militants in pick-up trucks arrived in the town of Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening, shooting and setting off explosives. Alerted by the noise, staff and students were able to flee. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":402768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[9494,17216],"class_list":["post-402766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-bokoharam","tag-school-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}