Boko Haram: 200 schoolgirls abducted by gunmen, Soldiers overpowered.

Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, parents say.

Gunmen reportedly arrived
at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel’s teenage residents on to lorries.

Parents told the BBC’s Hausa service that at least 200 girls had been abducted. The attackers are thought to be from the Islamist group, Boko Haram.

On Monday, bombings blamed on the group killed more than 70 people in Abuja.

‘Soldiers overpowered’

The attack on the hostel in Chibok was confirmed by police, although they had no confirmation of the abductions.

Residents in the area reported hearing gunshots followed by explosions last night, said BBC reporter Mohammed Kabir Mohammed in the capital, Abuja.

“Many girls were abducted by the rampaging gunmen who stormed the school in a convoy of vehicles,” the AFP news agency quotes Emmanuel Sam, an education official in Chibok, as saying.