Nigerian army says second Chibok girl rescued from Boko Haram

The Nigerian army says another girl abducted from the town of Chibok by Boko Haram has been rescued.

Army spokesman Sani Kukasheka Usman said the girl was freed along with 96 other women and children being held by Boko Haram in Borno state, The Guardian reports. He also said 35 Boko Haram militants were killed in "clearance operations." In 2014, Boko Haram extremists entered the dormitories at a school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok and abducted 276 girls; in the hours that followed, more than 50 were able to escape.

Two days ago, one of the missing girls, Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, was found by a vigilante group backed by the army. She was in the Sambisa Forest, near the border with Cameroon, along with her four-month-old baby and a man suspected of being a Boko Haram member. Usman said while he was thrilled she had been found and was going to resume her studies, "my feelings are tinged with deep sadness at the horrors the young girl has had to go through at such an early stage in her life." There are still 217 girls missing.

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