Nigeria’s Chief of Defence says the military has located the nearly 300 school girls who were abducted by Islamic extremists last month. But he cautioned using force to free them could get them killed.
Air Marshal Alex Badeh was speaking to thousands of demonstrators who marched to the Defence Ministry headquarters in the capital Abuja. The country’s military and government have faced national and international outrage over their failure to rescue the girls seized by Boko Haram militants from a remote northeastern school six weeks ago. More than 300 teenagers were abducted from their school in the town Chibok on April the 15th. Police say 53 have escaped on their own and 276 remain captive.