Four schoolgirls who were seized by Boko Haram six months ago have escaped from a camp run by the Islamist group in Cameroon, it was reported on 16 October.
The four girls were from a group of around 270 (not part of the more widely publicised group of 200) kidnapped from their boarding school in the predominantly Christian town of Chibok in Borno State, Northern Nigeria in April this year. They were helped to escape by a fellow prisoner, a teenage boy. They walked west for more than three weeks, guided by the setting sun, until they arrived in a Nigerian village. They were starving and traumatised on their arrival.
The girls are the only captives to have escaped a Boko Haram camp.
