Teen in north Cameroon says she is a missing Chibok girl
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FILE-In this file photo taken from video released by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday May 12, 2014, shows missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. A teenage who surrendered before carrying out a suicide bombing attack in northern Cameroon has told authorities she was one of the 276 girls abducted from a Nigerian boarding school by Islamic extremists nearly two years ago, authorities said Saturday, March 26, 2016. (AP Photo) (The Associated Press)
A teenager who surrendered before carrying out a suicide bombing attack in northern Cameroon says she is one of the Chibok girls abducted from a Nigerian boarding school nearly two years ago.
Idrissou Yacoubou, the leader of a Cameroonian self-defense group, said Saturday that the girl is about 15 years old and turned herself in before detonating her explosives.
He described her as "tired, malnourished and psychologically tortured."
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Dozens of the Chibok girls were last seen in a video alongside the leader of Boko Haram, who has pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State.
The plight of the more than 200 girls still missing has remained a mystery, though many have feared they were married off to fighters or are being used as suicide bombers for the extremist group.