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The Straight Story

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Sat May 10, 2014, 10:22 PM May 2014

Kidnapped Nigerian girls tell of escape from Boko Haram militants (53 who escaped earlier)

BRAVE schoolgirls who escaped from an Islamist militant group in Nigeria have told of their harrowing ordeal at the hands of Boko Haram.

In exclusive vision obtained by SKY UK, some girls targeted by the kidnappers told how they had escaped from the gun-toting terrorists.

One said she had hidden in a tree overnight, while another said she had fled after being put in a truck and taken into a forest.

The first thing the Boko Haram insurgents did when they stopped to camp in the forest near a village called Baale after the kidnapping, was put some of the girls to work cooking looted food.

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The girls told the gunmen they needed to relieve themselves. They were allowed to walk into the bush.

“As soon as we were out of sight of the gunmen, we fled and we ran for about two hours,” the girl said.

http://www.news.com.au/world/kidnapped-nigerian-girls-tell-of-escape-from-boko-haram-militants/story-fndir2ev-1226913333679

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