{"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\/2018\/02\/nigerian-girls-escape-boko-haram-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian girls escape Boko Haram attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
Schoolgirls and teachers in north-eastern Nigeria have escaped an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, witnesses say.<\/p>\n
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
Alerted by the noise, staff and students were able to flee.<\/p>\n
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the north-eastern town of Chibok.<\/p>\n
Residents and civilian militia in Dapchi say they believe the jihadists had planned to kidnap schoolgirls in their town too.<\/p>\n
After finding the school empty, the militants looted the building.<\/p>\n