Abducted Chibok Schoolgirl Found by Nigerian Army

iStock/Thinkstock(PULKA, Nigeria) — One of the missing Chibok schoolgirls has been found with a 10-month-old baby, according to the Nigerian army, just a few weeks after 21 of the Chibok girls were freed from Boko Haram militants.

Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman, a Nigerian army spokesman, said she was rescued early Saturday in Pulka when soldiers were screening escapees from the Boko Haram shelter in the Sambisa forest.

Over 200 schoolgirls in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok were abducted by Boko Haram militants in April 2014.

Twenty-one of the kidnapped Chibok girls were freed in October after Switzerland and the International Red Cross brokered negotiations between the Nigerian government and the extremist group.

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