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Breaking News: Local Hunters, Soldiers Rescue Over 80 Girls Kidnapped In Borno

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About 80 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Monday were reportedly rescued on Tuesday and Wednesday morning by a group of vigilante, local hunters and soldiers. The joint security team pursued the insurgents in search of about 100 girls they abducted. It was gathered that the insurgents, who were carrying the school girls in Tipper Lorries, got stuck in the bush while they were trying to crossover some muddy area between Chibok and Askira/Uba.   According to the father of one of the rescued girls Malam Ali Iliya, the girl said when the trailer got stuck, some of the girls jumped out and ran for their lives. “They were scattered in the bush when the vigilante and local hunters found them. Some of them were wounded, some were with fracture, which I believe was as a result of jumping from the high vehicle, but we are happy that our children have been rescued. “Now we are