Case overview
On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 mostly Christian, with some Muslim, schoolgirls aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. A soldier and a police officer were killed during the course of the raid. [1]
Parents said that 234 girls were missing, however according to the local police approximately 276 children were taken in the attack, of whom 53 had escaped by 2 May. The girls kidnapped in Chibok in 2014 are only a small percentage of the total number of people abducted by Boko Haram. [2]
