Nigeria wants to know if two girls arrested before they could detonate suicide bombs are Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram two years ago, state broadcaster NTA said Saturday.
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Friday, three female suicide bombers planning to carry
out an attack near the northern Cameroon village of Limani were spotted by
local vigilantes before they could blow themselves up, Cameroon's state broadcaster CRTV
said.
One girl escaped. One girl who was captured claimed to be
part of the group of 276 teenage girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
from the Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014, NTA reported.
Boko Haram sparked international outrage when it abducted the
girls from the town in northeastern Nigeria, police said. About
50 girls escaped but authorities fear the rest may have been raped, brutalized
or forced to convert to Islam.
The Nigerian government designated two parents from
Chibok to travel to Cameroon and visit the girls, NTA said. A timeline has yet
to be announced about the Chibok parents' trip.
One of the attackers is being held by the Cameroonian
military and a second was sent to a health unit for medical treatment, though
her condition was not revealed, CRTV reported.
One of the two was also believed to be heavily drugged and therefore not in
full control of her senses, NTA said.
Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group
based in Nigeria whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.
The group especially opposes the education of women and
its name translates to "Western education is a sin" in the local
language.
Under its version of Sharia law, women should be at home
raising children and looking after their husbands, not at school learning to
read and write.
Its members have repeatedly targeted places of learning
in deadly attacks that have highlighted its fundamental philosophy against
education.
source: CNN
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