LAGOS, NIGERIA ¨C Boko Haram fighters fleeing an attack on their base last week may have used some of the girls kidnapped in 2014 from northeast Nigeria¡¯s Chibok as human shields to prevent being fired upon by fighter jets, a military commander said on Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor, theater commander of Nigeria¡¯s military campaign against the group, showed a news conference aerial footage he said was filmed during the operation in the Sambisa forest that showed Boko Haram fighters moving with women and children.
¡°The haggard fighters were just using them as a shield,¡± Irabor told reporters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. ¡°That is why we did not engage them from the air.
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