A teenager who surrendered before carrying out a
suicide bombing attack in Yaounde northern Cameroon has told authorities she was
one of the 276 girls abducted from a Nigerian boarding school by
Islamic extremists nearly two years ago.
If confirmed the development would mark the first news of the missing
Chibok girls in many months. It has long been feared that some are
being used by their Boko Haram abductors to carry out such attacks given
the growing number of young female suicide bombers.
The girl is about 15 years old and turned herself in before
detonating her explosives, said Idrissou Yacoubou, the leader of a
self-defense group in Limani, Cameroon.
“The girl looked tired, malnourished and psychologically tortured and
could not give us more details about her stay in the forest and how her
other mates were treated,” he said.
Cameroon has ordered investigations to determine the authenticity of
the 15-year-old’s declarations, said Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of the
Far North region. Cameroonian authorities declined to identify her by
name because she is a minor.
The office of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria’s
military did not immediately respond to questions sent on a public
holiday.
Authorities said Saturday along with the 15-year-old two other young
women came with explosive belts — one was arrested and the other managed
to flee back across the border into Nigeria.
In Chibok, a community leader said by telephone that the girl’s age
could correspond to that of a 14-year-old who was the youngest among 276
girls abducted in the early hours of April 15 from a government
boarding school. Dozens of the girls managed to escape on their own
within hours, but 219 remain missing.
The plight of the abducted girls drew international attention and prompted the#BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media.
Dozens of them were last seen in a Boko Haram video with extremist
leader Abubakar Shekau who boasted they had converted to Islam and
threatening to sell them off or marry them to his fighters.
There have long been suspicions that Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic
extremist group is using captives as suicide bombers. It is not known
how many thousands of other girls, boys and young men and women have
been abducted by the group.
In recent months Nigeria’s military has reported freeing at least
3,000 people held captive by the insurgents. Most recently, the military
said it rescued 829 hostages in raids Tuesday on several Boko
Haram-held villages in the northeast. At the same time, there are
reports of Boko Haram continuing to take dozens of new captives.
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