Nigerian army kills five Chibok girls accidentally – survivor

- The recent video has brought hope to the parents of the Chibok girls, some of whom recognized their children

- One of the Boko Haram survivors claimed that the Nigerian army killed five Chibok girls during the clearance operation

The deadly Boko Haram sect has taken thousands of women and girls to rape, force them into marriage, convert into Islam with little attention paid to them.

However, a mass kidnapping of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls attracted a lot of attention from the globe community.

Apart from the recent video that appeared on April 13 a shocking lack of concrete information exists about what has occurred to the Chibok girls since they were taken, though rumors prosper.

Vice News spoke with a woman in her 30s, who escaped the insurgents six weeks ago.

READ ALSO: Would President Buhari save his own daughter, Zahra?

Hawwa, claimed that she had met the Chibok girls in Gwoza, the former center of Boko Haram's self-declared caliphate.

She was kidnapped from Madagali, a town in Adamawa state, and held by the terrorists for a year.

The woman stated that she was forced to work as a cook for the Boko Haram sect, and was kept in a complex with a lot of other women and children, where conditions were poor.

According to her, the Chibok girls were kept alone and treated much better than the other women, "like VIPs."

The girls were attended the Islamic education classes together, where they quoted passages of the Quran. From the classes Hawwa learned about who they were and how they were kidnapped.

Hawwa said some of the abducted girls had been "initiated" into Boko Haram, by converting to Islam and marrying terrorists, with many now having children. Meanwhile, others remained "stubborn."

She added: "There were some that did not convert to Islam, now they are living for when they will die because they are not practicing any religion there."

The escaped woman also claimed that while Gwoza was under Boko Haram's control, five of the Chibok girls were killed by the Nigerian army jets that flew overhead and opened fire on a crowd of women as they sat together in a camp.

"The military... didn't know they were the Chibok girls," she said. "They would have seen a group of women in a compound and just fired... When it started we ran."

READ ALSO: Heartbreaking: 14 of Chibok girls’ parents died of trauma as rescue hopes weaken

Hawwa said she thought the army "would have thought they were the family of the insurgents."

Since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power the army launched a strong offensive against the deadly sect, including an aggressive aerial campaign.

Legit.ng has obtained the video of the bombardment of the Sambisa forest, where the group is thought to be hiding out.

However, we are not able to verify Hawwa's story with any other source.

This week, Bring Back Our Girls activists who have worked tirelessly over the past two years to keep the Chibok abduction in the public eye are holding another series of events.

While the Nigerian army has now regained much of the territory that was held by Boko Haram in its northeastern heartland, kidnappings continue.

Just last month, 14 women were taken as they went to collect water, according to people occupying displacement camps in northern Nigeria.

Source: Legit.ng