Boko Haram has released a new video claiming to show the
missing Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted last month, alleging they had
converted to Islam and would not be released until all of its prisoners held by
Nigeria were freed.
In the video, obtained by the AFP news agency on Monday,
Abubakar Shekau, the group's leader, is shown speaking for 17 minutes before
showing what he said were about 130 of the girls, wearing full-length abayas
and praying in an undisclosed rural location.
Nearly 300 girls were abducted on April 14 from the
northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, which has a sizeable Christian
community. Fifty-three girls managed to escape.
Three of the girls in Monday's video are interviewed in the
recording. Two say they were Christian and had converted while one said she was
Muslim. The girls appeared calm and one said that they had not been
harmed. There was no indication of when the video was taken.
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