The heavily armed Insurgents kidnapped more than 100 girls from the Government Girls secondary school in Borno state and torched the surrounding town,
Many girls were reportedly abducted by the rampaging Islamist gunmen who stormed the school in a convoy of vehicles," Emmanuel Sam, an education official in the town of Chibok, where the attack took place, told AFP. According to him, the attackers came "in trucks and on motorcycles and headed to the school", where they overpowered soldiers deployed to guard it, a witness who requested anonymity said.
