Fears for 100 missing girls

MORE than 100 girls were missing overnight, police said, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world.

Islamist militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening. Locals initially said the girls and their teachers fled.

But fears have been growing for many of the girls, with about 50 parents and guardians converging on the school to demand answers.