Boko Haram may have used Chibok girls as shields during attack: Nigerian army

Boko Haram fighters fleeing an attack on their base last week may have used some of the girls kidnapped in 2014 from northeast Nigeria's Chibok as human shields to prevent being fired upon by fighter jets, a military commander said on Wednesday. Major General Lucky Irabor, theater commander of Nigeria's military campaign against the group, showed a news conference aerial footage he said was filmed during the operation in the Sambisa forest that showed Boko Haram fighters moving with women and children. "That is why we did not engage them from the air." "We had always believed and hoped that going into the Sambisa would afford us the opportunity to get the remaining Chibok girls.

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