More than 100 female students have been abducted from a secondary school in Nigeria, a teacher has claimed.
It is believed that suspected Islamist insurgents kidnapped the girls from the school in the north-east Borno state.
Audu Musa, who teaches at a different school, said: “Over 100 female students in our government secondary school at Chibok have been abducted.”
Musa said he saw eight bodies in the area this morning, but did not give the identity of the victims. “Things are very bad here and everybody is sad,” he said.
The BBC spoke to one girl managed to escape when the raid started while the pupils were sleeping.
She said that they were armed and took food from the school’s store before forcing the girls into lorries and buses.
She fled when the truck she was in slowed down because it developed a fault.
He added that the abductors are believed to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect which has previously attacked education establishments in the north east of the country, Mirror informs.
