Nigeria Governor Says 50 Girls Missing After Attack by Militants
A woman stands in a pool of rain water at a camp in Rann, Nigeria on July 29, 2017.
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More than 50 girls in Nigeria are missing after Boko Haram militants attacked a school in the northeast on Monday, according to the governor of Yobe state.
“Out of the 926 students in the school, over 50 are still unaccounted for,” Abdullahi Bego, a spokesman for Governor Ibrahim Gaidam, said in an emailed statement Wednesday. There’s “no credible information yet as to whether any of the schoolgirls was taken hostage by the terrorists.”