US Intelligence Say Missing Girls May Have Been Trafficked Out And Shared Into Smaller Groups
A report on CNN says US and UK intelligence believe the missing Chibok girls may have been trafficked to Chad, Niger and Cameroon and shared into smaller groups to facilitate easy trafficking.
Meanwhile 7 US anti-terrorism agents have arrived Nigeria today to help in the process of rescuing the missing girls.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said the team, which includes officials from the Ministry of Defence, would now "advise and support" the Nigerian government.
"The team will be considering not just the recent incidents but also longer-term counter-terrorism solutions to prevent such attacks in the future and defeat Boko Haram," he added.
The British team's arrival comes after a US group of military and intelligence experts touched down in Nigeria, more than three weeks after Islamist militants struck at a boarding school in the village of Chibok.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said: "Our inter-agency team is ... going to be working in concert with President Goodluck Jonathan's government to do everything we can to return these girls to their families and their communities.
"We're also going to do everything possible to counter the menace of Boko Haram."
The US team includes experts in intelligence, law enforcement and hostage negotiations but fewer than 10 soldiers are among them.
Washington is also considering a request to provide surveillance aircraft and intelligence, a senior US official told the Reuters news agency.
The arrival of international support came as a parent of one of the schoolgirls pleaded with countries from around the world to send more help.
Meanwhile 7 US anti-terrorism agents have arrived Nigeria today to help in the process of rescuing the missing girls.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said the team, which includes officials from the Ministry of Defence, would now "advise and support" the Nigerian government.
"The team will be considering not just the recent incidents but also longer-term counter-terrorism solutions to prevent such attacks in the future and defeat Boko Haram," he added.
The British team's arrival comes after a US group of military and intelligence experts touched down in Nigeria, more than three weeks after Islamist militants struck at a boarding school in the village of Chibok.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said: "Our inter-agency team is ... going to be working in concert with President Goodluck Jonathan's government to do everything we can to return these girls to their families and their communities.
"We're also going to do everything possible to counter the menace of Boko Haram."
The US team includes experts in intelligence, law enforcement and hostage negotiations but fewer than 10 soldiers are among them.
Washington is also considering a request to provide surveillance aircraft and intelligence, a senior US official told the Reuters news agency.
The arrival of international support came as a parent of one of the schoolgirls pleaded with countries from around the world to send more help.
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