A second Chibok girl among the 218 girls who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram has been found, according to the Nigerian army.
The girls were kidnapped from their school dormitories on the night of April 14, 2014, in the northeastern province of Borno, which was earlier a militant stronghold.
In mid-2014, Boko Haram gained an estimated 20,000 square miles of land in Borno, including the town of Chibok, but could not capture the state capital Maiduguri. Towards the end of 2015, Nigerian military headquarters said that most of the Boko Haram camps were destroyed.
The second girl, Serah Luka, was rescued days after the first girl was found by the army in Sambisa Forest near Damboa, south of Maiduguri.
Luka is one of the 97 women and children who were freed from a Boko Haram camp.
"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 army spokesman Sani Usman. He also said that she was receiving medical treatment.
Luka is from the town of Madagali, in the province of Adamawa which borders Borno state.
"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," Usman said.
However, Yakubu Nkeki, a spokesman for Chibok girls' parents, told BBC that the girl's name is not among those missing, and that their records do not show any 15-16 years old girl (Serah's description provided by army) was part of the group of kidnapped girls who were about 17 years old at the time of abduction, and were about to sit in their school-leaving exams.
"[She] is number 157 on the list of the abducted school girls. She is believed to be the daughter of Pastor Luka," Usman added.
BBC Hausa editor Mansur Liman said that the confusion prevailing over her may be because of lack of Internet connectivity in remote areas, which is making it difficult to reach out to parents to confirm her identity.
A video footage was released by CNN last month that showed 15 kidnapped schoolgirls alive, who were made to say that "[they] are all well." The girls, wearing long black robes, were mostly Christians, but Boko Haram claims that they have been converted to Islam. All of them were identified by their parents.
Two years ago, Boko Haram militants had kidnapped 276 girls, but about 50 of them escaped on the way by jumping off the trucks carrying them. Several others intermittently escaped from their forest captivity in the following months.
Their abduction had led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which was promoted by several famous celebrities and activists, including US First Lady Michelle Obama and Malala Yousafzai.
