50 GIRLS MISSING AFTER BOKO HARAM ATTACKS TOWN

About 50 girls have been missing since Boko Haram extremists attacked a village in Nigeria that has a girls’ boarding school, provoking fears they may have been kidnapped like those from Chibok nearly four years ago. Authorities had no credible information that those missing from the village of Dapchi were taken by Boko Haram, said Abdullahi Bego, a spokesman for the governor in Yobe state. Some witnesses, however, recalled seeing girls being taken by the armed group that also abducted 276 girls from the school in Chibok in April 2014. Armed fighters invaded Dapchi Monday evening, forcing residents to flee into the bushes. Police and the state ministry of education had initially denied claims that students were abducted.