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File photo of Martha Mark, mother of kidnapped schoolgirl Monica Mark Sunday Alamba/AP/Press Association Images

11 parents of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls have died since their abduction

One father reportedly died repeating his kidnapped daughters’ names.

IN THE THREE months since Islamic extremists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of their parents have died, according locals in the town of Chibok.

Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to the Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month, said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists.

At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the mass abduction, said community leader Pogu Bitrus, who provided their names.

One father of two of the girls kidnapped just went into a kind of coma and kept repeating the names of his daughters, until life left him.

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The town where the girls were kidnapped, Chibok, is cut off by militants, who have been attacking villages in the region.

Yesterday marked the 100th day since Boko Haram kidnapped the 276 girls. Some have managed to escape but 219 remain in captivity.

President Goodluck Jonathan met Tuesday with parents of the 219 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls and some classmates who managed to escape from Islamic extremists.

He pledged to continue working to see the girls “are brought out alive,” said his spokesman.

That eventuality, however, if it occurs, will have come too late for some.

Additional reporting by Dan Mac Guill

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    Jun 25th 2021, 12:13 PM

    The bruises must have healed

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    Jun 25th 2021, 12:49 PM

    I wonder would Julian Assange prefer house arrest ro jail too? I wonder how many countries might intercept an aircraft (or ship) carrying a “wanted” person that is travelling through their territory, or worse still, invaded someone else’s territory to “remove” a “wanted” person! For example what would the USA do had Osama bin Laden been on a flight from Mexico to Canada. There is no doubt the flight should not have been intercepted but there is also hypocrisy in the feint of some foriegn governments.

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    Jun 25th 2021, 2:15 PM

    @Niall Ó Cofaigh: yes but the difference there pal is that the US would have notified Mexico that the lad is there and they would intercept plane not that that hypothetical scenario would have happened even if they havent killed him. But theese lads faked a bomb threat to get a pr problem off a plane no where near the same threat level as the lad u mentioned just some lad in his 20s with a twitter page as a weapon if they get away with that no one is safe. Even the uk didnt burst in to the embasy to extract assage he got himself kicked out for smeering feeces on the walls in the embasy.

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    Jun 25th 2021, 2:18 PM

    @Niall Ó Cofaigh: ah now he wasnt responsible for murder, he just spoke out against a regime, to put him in same category as Osama bin laden is crazy. The point is he should never being a wanted man to begin with..

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    Jun 25th 2021, 1:53 PM

    #FreeAssange

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