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More of the missing schoolgirls are said to be returning home.
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Chibok girls: A timeline of terror
Boko Haram kidnaped 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria.Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE
LONDON and MAIDUGURI Nearly seven years after Boko Haram militants snatched them from their dormitory beds in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, more of the missing schoolgirls are said to be returning home.
Emmanuel Ogebe, a Nigerian human rights lawyer who practices in the United States and has previously worked with some of the freed girls and their families, said a parent told him that his daughter and others have escaped their captors.
By MORGAN WINSOR and JAMES BWALA, ABC News
(LONDON) Nearly seven years after Boko Haram militants snatched them from their dormitory beds in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, more of the missing schoolgirls are said to be returning home.
Emmanuel Ogebe, a Nigerian human rights lawyer who practices in the United States and has previously worked with some of the freed girls and their families, said a parent told him that his daughter and others have escaped their captors. Mr. Ali Maiyanga s two daughters were part of the few Muslim schoolgirls taken with the majority Christian Chibok girls. Information currently available to us indicates that there are other escapees with the army whom parents are anxiously waiting to identify, Ogebe said in a statement to ABC News late Thursday. We spoke and confirmed from Mr. Ali Maiyanga moments ago that he in fact spoke with his daughter today, who informed him that she along with others were rescued. Her sister who escaped four years