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Nigeria president cancels visit to village of abducted girls

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16-05-2014 | 03:00

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Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his first visit to the village from which more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted by rebels a month ago due to security fears, a senior government source said on Friday.

Jonathan will fly on Friday from the capital Abuja to Paris for a regional summit to discuss the Boko Haram insurgency and wider insecurity and will not now make a stop in the northeastern village of Chibok, said the source.

This comes as a police spokesperson said that gunmen razed two schools in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram gunmen previously attacked a girls' school.

The spokesman added that gunmen in cars and on motorcycles stormed the neighboring villages of Shadarki and Yelwan Darazo, setting two schools ablaze.

No one was hurt in the attacks, which happened on Wednesday when the schools were empty.

None of the gunmen were arrested and the army spokesman declined to say if the attackers were from Boko Haram.

Boko Haram, which translates from the Hausa language spoken in north Nigeria as "Western education is forbidden", has destroyed hundreds of schools in the northeast in the past two years.

Dozens of students have been killed in school raids and on April 14, 276 girls were kidnapped from their school in the town of Chibok in north-eastern Borno state.

A total of 223 are still missing and are the subject of an international rescue mission after global outrage fueled by a social media campaign.

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