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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSchoolgirls and teachers in north-eastern Nigeria have escaped an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, witnesses say.<\/p>\n
They say the militants in pick-up trucks arrived in the town of Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening, shooting and setting off explosives.<\/p>\n
Alerted by the noise, staff and students were able to flee.<\/p>\n
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the north-eastern town of Chibok.<\/p>\n
Residents and civilian militia in Dapchi say they believe the jihadists had planned to kidnap schoolgirls in their town too.<\/p>\n
After finding the school empty, the militants looted the building.<\/p>\n
They say that Nigeria\u2019s security forces \u2013 backed by military jets \u2013 later repelled the attack.<\/p>\n
Last September, a group of more than 100 of the Chibok girls were reunited with their families at a party in the capital Abuja.<\/p>\n
Most of the group were released in May as part of a controversial prisoner swap deal with the Nigerian government that saw five Boko Haram commanders released.<\/p>\n
But more than 100 schoolgirls are still being held by Boko Haram, and their whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram militants have been fighting a long insurgency in their quest for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The conflict is estimated to have killed tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n
The Chibok girls represent a fraction of the women captured by the militant group, which has kidnapped thousands during its eight-year insurgency in northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n
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