Islamist militants drove scores of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls back into the town where they had been captured a month ago and abruptly set them free on Wednesday. Several of the girls said some of their friends had died in captivity and one was still being held. “I don’t know why they brought us back but they said because we are children of Muslims,” one of the freed girls, Khadija Grema, told Reuters. “One is still with them because she is a Christian,” said Grema, the freed girl. We didn’t have any problem.”Muhammad Bursari said his niece Hadiza Muhammed, another of the freed girls, told him the remaining student was still in captivity because she had refused to convert to Islam.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 21, 2018 12:56 UTC