While some were freed or escaped, the authorities’ waning interest and ongoing mass abductions by militants has left campaigners and families of missing pupils in despair
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The father of the latest escapee lives in a village some 50 kilometers away from Chibok.
Attempts to reach the Media coordinator of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Ado Isa, proved futile as his phone line was switched off.
Channels Television gathered from other sources that several other girls also escaped from their captors but only one of them is from Chibok
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A total of 276 schoolgirls were abducted from their hostel in 2014 by a group of gunmen, sparking international outrage
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57 of them escaped, the government was able to negotiate the rescue of some others, while 102 are still in captivity.
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