search for schoolgirls believed to have been
kidnapped by al-Qaeda-linked group Boko Haram.
Parents of more than 230 girls abducted from their
boarding school by Nigerian Islamists linked to al- Qaeda have had to call off their search for their
missing daughters because of a lack of police back-
up.
Several parents described how they were forced to
carry out their own search for the girls without help
from authorities, but had to pull back when they
were close to where they believe the hostages
were being held, in a dense forest.
"We formed a search party, riding on motorcycles
into the forest, searching several places until a man
gave us information that he saw our girls with the
abductors ahead," said Shettima Haruna, whose
daughter is missing.
"The man actually told us that our children were
not far away. But he warned that the abductors
were well armed and kill at will, so we decided to
save our lives and returned."
Another father,
Shettima Hamma, confirmed the search party had to
give up because they had no armed support. "
We trailed the abductors of our daughters far into
very dangerous places inside the forest, but we
couldn't go further because we have no
sophisticated weapons that could match that of
those holding our daughters," he said.
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