article_snippet.sent: The Government Girls Secondary School had been closed for a month because of the danger posed by Boko Haram militants, who are opposed to Western education, particularly for girls.
article_snippet.sent: But students from several schools had been called in to take a final exam in physics.
article_snippet.sent: The militants stormed The Government Girls Secondary School, arriving in a convoy of trucks and buses and engaging in a gun battle with school security guards.
article_snippet.sent: Then The militants forced the girls from The militants dormitories, loaded the girls into trucks and drove the girls into the forest.
article_snippet.sent: Police said The militants kidnapped 276 girls in all.
article_snippet.sent: About 50 managed to escape soon after the girls were abducted.