Abducted Female Students From GGSS Chibok Freed.

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The authorities of the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, have said more of the students who were abducted from the Government Girl Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on Tuesday night have been freed.

The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris Olukolade, in a statement on Wednesday said the Special Forces were already closing in on those believed to have carried out the abduction.

Olukolade put the total number of girls abducted from the school at 129.

The Defence spokesman however explained that the military was not putting a figure to those released because some who escaped went home.

“More of the abducted students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State have this afternoon been freed as troops pursuing the terrorists close in on the den of those believed to have carried out the attack.

“A total of 129 students had earlier been abducted by a group of terrorists,” the statement read in part.

He said that the troops in the pursuit of those holding the insurgents were being careful in order to rescue as many of the abducted schoolgirls as possible.

He said that the military would have opted for an aerial operation in the pursuit of the abductors, but had to consider the issue of safety.