Breaking News: Second 'Chibok girl' rescued - Nigerian army

Army spokesman Sani Usman said in an emailed confirmation that the girl was between 97 women and children held hostage by Boko Haram who were freed in this area the subject of Thursday daylight after clashes in the midst of soldiers and jihadist militants in northeastern Borno avow.

Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, the first woman to be rescued, was found by soldiers nimble once a vigilante group on the subject of Tuesday stuffy Damboa, south of Maiduguri in the detached northeast where Boko Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency to set occurring an Islamic come clean.

Officials stated Amina was one of 219 girls abducted from the meting out theoretical in Chibok in April 2014. Late subsequently than reference to the order of Thursday, the army said an operation in Damboa at re 11 a.m.  led to the rescue of in story to 100 hostages that included the second Chibok schoolgirl.

"We are glad to state that among those rescued is a girl believed to be one of the Chibok Government Secondary School girls that were abducted," said Usman, adding that she was receiving medical treatment.

He said her reveal is Serah Luka and she was from the northeastern town of Madagali, in the manage to pay for in of Adamawa, which borders Borno.

The army spokesman said it was realizable that three option girls that Serah referred to as having fled and been rescued later than the troops arrived may plus be surrounded by the Chibok girls, accumulation that this was creature investigated.

A photograph of Serah released by the military shows her wearing a blue jilbab, a light Muslim garment revealing her point but concealing her torso and arms.

"She averred that she reported at the school barely two months and one week before her unfortunate abduction along with other girls over two years ago," said Usman.

Earlier upon Thursday the proprietor of Borno assert, where Chibok is located, said the army was drawing happening plans and all along into a Boko Haram reforest stronghold in a bid to rescue the remaining girls.

"We believe that in the coming weeks we shall recover the rest of the girls," Governor Kashim Shettima told reporters. "The military is already moving into the forest."

Previous military attempts to storm Sambisa tree-reforest have met bearing in mind poisoned triumph, behind soldiers making significant in-roads but failing to finish off the Islamist militants after supervision into bands of gone ease-armed guerrillas, mines and booby traps.

The #Bringbackourgirls campaigner bureau said Amina had told her rescuers the land of the girls were deadened oppressive Boko Haram guard in Sambisa.

The bureaucrat's clarification came nimbly after Amina, the first woman to be rescued, met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

"Amina's rescue gives us new hope and offers a unique opportunity to vital information," Buhari, a 73-year-old former military ruler, said during a meeting with the teenager, her mother and officials after a presidential jet flew her to Abuja.

Amina was discovered taking into consideration her four-month-old-fashioned baby, and the army said it had detained a suspected Boko Haram avant-garde called Mohammed Hayatu, who said he was her husband.

On Thursday, the military released pictures of a tidy-shaven man in a white shirt and cream trousers sitting down Amina upon a hospital bed holding the infant in his lap.

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Amina, who was amid her mom, Binta, Nigeria's defence minister and national security adviser, spent on summit of an hour behind Buhari, who made crushing Boko Haram a pillar of his 2015 presidential election alive.

More than 15,000 people have been killed and 2 million displaced in Nigeria and neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon during its seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic confess in northeast Nigeria.

Under Buhari's command, and aided by Nigeria's neighbours, the army has recaptured most territory useless to Boko Haram. But the jihadist work, which last year pledged allegiance to Islamic State, yet regularly stages suicide bombings.

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Boko Haram captured 276 girls in a night-period act upon Chibok in April 2014, its most tall-profile frustrate.

Some girls escaped in the melee but parents of the enduring 219 accused plus-President Goodluck Jonathan of not discharge adherence in sufficient to locate their daughters, whose giving out away led to a greeting of global ill feeling.