Bombing suspect "not Chibok girl"

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Boko Haram released an image in 2014 of some of the abducted schoolgirls

A senior Nigerian official has told the BBC that a would-be suicide bomber arrested in Cameroon is not one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls.

The girl had told investigators she was one of 270 abducted in Nigeria in 2014 by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

She had explosives strapped to her body, had been drugged and was badly injured when she was arrested last week, Cameroonian officials say.

Boko Haram is increasingly using girls to carry out suicide bombings.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a new investigation into the kidnappings in January, but admitted he had no information on the girls’ whereabouts.

The abductions of the schoolgirls from Chibok town in north-eastern Nigeria sparked international outrage and the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign.

While about 50 of the girls managed to escape, 219 of the girls remain missing.

Although Boko Haram has been driven out from most of the areas it controlled in north-eastern Nigeria, it has continued to carry out suicide bombings and raids into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

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Boko Haram has sworn allegiance to Islamic State and often displays its trademark black flag

• Founded in 2002, initially focused on opposing Western-style education – Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language


• Launched military operations in 2009


• Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, hundreds abducted, including at least 200 schoolgirls


• Joined so-called Islamic State, now calls itself IS’s “West African province”


• Seized large area in north-east, where it declared caliphate


• Regional force has retaken most territory this year

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