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Nigeria Arrests Boko Haram Members Linked to Chibok Attack

by Associated Press

   MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA --

   A Nigerian police official says authorities have arrested 22 Boko Haram
   extremist leaders and fighters responsible for the mass kidnapping of
   schoolgirls in Chibok and more than 50 suicide bombings.

   Borno State Police Commissioner Damian Chukwu says the arrests took
   place between July 4 and 9. Chukwu says police seized the coordinators
   of suicide bombings in Borno and the coordinator and participants in
   the Chibok abductions in 2014. He says others also confessed to
   ambushing security agents and being logistics suppliers.

   He also says the suspects are helping with information that could lead
   to the arrests of other Boko Haram commanders.

   Boko Haram has killed more than 20,000 people during its 9-year
   insurgency.

   Dozens of the Chibok schoolgirls have been freed, but more than 100
   have never returned.