Girl and someone she says she married during captivity surrendered themselves to military

One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state’s governor said on Saturday.

The raid on the school in the north-eastern town one night in April 2014 sparked an international outcry and a viral campaign on social media with the hashtag #bringbackourgirls.

Related: ‘I had to find them’: kidnapped filmmaker Mellissa Fung on her mission to find the Boko Haram girls

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