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| Nigeria abductions: Warnings of school raid 'ignored' | Nigeria abductions: Warnings of school raid 'ignored' |
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| Nigeria's military had advance warning of the attack on a school at which some 270 girls were kidnapped but failed to act, a rights group says. | Nigeria's military had advance warning of the attack on a school at which some 270 girls were kidnapped but failed to act, a rights group says. |
| Amnesty International says it was told by several credible sources that the military was given more than fours hours' warning of the raid. | |
| Fifty-three of the girls escaped shortly after being seized on 14 April, leaving more than 200 still captive. | |
| The authorities have not yet commented on Amnesty's statement. | |
| Teams of experts from the US and UK have arrived in Nigeria to help locate and rescue the abductees. | Teams of experts from the US and UK have arrived in Nigeria to help locate and rescue the abductees. |
| Amnesty says that despite the warning, reinforcements were not sent to help protect the school in the remote Chibok area. | |
| It says one reason was a "reported fear of engaging with the often better-equipped armed groups". | |
| It is believed the schoolgirls are being held somewhere in the vast forested areas that stretch from near Chibok into neighbouring Cameroon. | |
| The group says the small security force was overpowered by the attackers. | |
| Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has said it captured the girls, saying they should not have been in school and should get married instead. | |
| Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language, began its insurgency in Borno state in 2009. | |
| At least 1,200 people are estimated to have died in the violence this year alone. | |
| In a video released earlier this week, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatened to "sell" the students. |