Second Nigerian ‘Chibok Girl’ Freed in a Week, Seven Years After Abduction

MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA, - A second young woman abducted seven years ago from the town of Chibok by Boko Haram militants was freed this week, Borno state's governor said Saturday.

The abduction of about 270 teenagers in the northeastern town in 2014 sparked an international outcry and a viral campaign on social media with the hashtag #bringbackourgirls. The army handed over Hassana Adamu, along with her two children, to Governor Babagana Zulum on Saturday, one week after his office announced that another of the victims had been freed and reunited with her parents. Adamu, like the other recently freed "Chibok girl," as the victims became known, "presented herself to the Nigerian army," the governor's office said.