MOSCOW (Sputnik) — One of the girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group in the Nigerian town of Chibok two years ago has been found by a local vigilante group, media reports said Wednesday.
Amina Ali Nkek was found by the Civilian Joint Task Force near the Nigerian-Cameroonian border on Tuesday, the BBC reported, citing local activists.
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In April 2014, the Boko Haram militant group attacked a boarding school in Chibok, kidnapping 276 girls. Some of them managed to escape within hours after the kidnapping, but a total of 219 remained missing until Tuesday's rescue.
The Boko Haram extremist group began large-scale attacks in northeast Nigeria in 2009. Last year, the group expanded attacks into neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad. The extremist group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, outlawed in Russia and many other countries, in March 2015.
