JOHANNESBURG — The first of Nigeria’s kidnapped “Chibok girls” to make it home after being released by her Islamic extremist captors spent a tortured night, tossing and turning and screaming, “They will kill me! They will kill me!”
So said the Rev. Enoch Mark, who stayed Thursday night with the traumatized young woman.
She appears to be the daughter of a Chadian carpenter who moved to the town of Chibok many years ago, according to interviews by The Associated Press.
She is the first of 219 girls held in captivity for more than five months to be released and to find her way home.
About 276 female students were abducted by Nigeria’s Islamic militant Boko Haram fighters from the Government Secondary School, where they had gathered to write final examinations April 15.
Fifty-seven escaped by themselves.
This first appearance of a Chibok abductee could inspire hope, said Mark.
There are some doubts about the identity of the schoolgirl.
Mark said she identified herself as Susannah Ishaya.
