16/04/2014
Kidnappers of 100 Nigerian schoolgirls pretended to be soldiers, says witness
Suspected Muslim extremists have kidnapped about 100 girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital ? a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ability to contain an Islamic uprising. Islamist rebels in Nigeria duped dozens of schoolgirls into thinking they were soldiers who had come to evacuate them before abducting more than 100 in their latest anti-government raid, one of the survivors said as reports emerged of another attack in the country?s north-east that left 20 dead. Gunmen suspected to be members of the radical Boko Haram movement swooped on the town of Chibok...
