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One 16-year-old Nigerian girl, who was among about 50 students who managed to escape after being abducted by Boko Haram militants three weeks ago, has spoken about the events of the night militants stormed into the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School.
The girl said the students in the dorm could hear the sound of gunshots from a nearby town. When armed men in uniforms burst in and said they would rescue them, the girls thought they were soldiers.
However, the gunmen then marched the students outside and removed all of the food from the school storeroom before lighting it on fire.
"They ... started shouting, 'Allahu Akhbar,' [God is great]," the 16-year-old student said. "And we knew."
The militants drove the girls away through the dense forest, where some 50 girls managed to escape. According to one girl, the last car in the convoy carrying fighters with weapons broke down, and she and a friend took the opportunity to jump from their pickup truck. They ran just as the last vehicle's lights came back on.
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, recently claiming that they will sell the girls.
Of the almost 300 girls who were taken, 276 are still missing. One intermediary who has been communicating with the militants said at least two have died of snakebite, and about 20 others are ill.
One official who was interviewed said he received a warning cell phone call at around 11:00 p.m. the night of the kidnappings, saying that 200 militants on 20 pickup trucks and more than 30 motorcycles were headed toward the town of Chibok.
The official alerted soldiers and warned residents to flee, but help came too late. When it did, the soldiers were outnumbered and outgunned by the militants. After the s
