The girls, Hauwa Mutah and Esther Markus, were on Sunday said to have escaped from the Sambisa Forest as a result of intense military operations. Two of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls have reportedly escaped from the Boko Haram terrorists' den.

 The girls, Hauwa Mutah and Esther Markus, were on Sunday said to have escaped from the Sambisa Forest as a result of intense military operations. “One is from Chibok and the other one is from Dzilang village,” a security officer told Daily Trust. Colonel Obinna Ezuipke, the head of the Intelligence Unit of the Joint Military Task Force, Operation Hadinkai, gave the number of remaining Chibok girls in captivity as 98 last week.

According to Ezuipke's breakdown, "57 of the 276 abducted Chibok girls escaped in 2014, while 107 girls were released in 2018." Three girls were rescued in 2019, two in 2021, and nine in 2022, bringing the total number of rescued girls to 178, with 98 still held captive by Boko Haram." On the night of 14-15 April 2014, 276 mostly Christian female students aged 16 to 18 were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria, by the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram.

 The school had been closed for four weeks due to deteriorating security conditions prior to the raid, but the girls were there to take physics final exams. Also, 57 of the schoolgirls escaped immediately after the incident by jumping from the trucks on which they were being transported, and others had been rescued on several occasions by the Nigerian armed forces.

Source : https://saharareporters.com/2023/04/25/two-abducted-schoolgirls-escape-sambisa-forest-borno-state