Nigerian Govt 'In Contact With Boko Haram'

Nigerian authorities have reportedly made indirect contact with the Islamist group behind the abduction of more than 250 schoolgirls.

Intelligence sources told Sky News that Nigeria's neighbours - Chad, Cameroon and Niger - are also providing satellite imagery to help find the girls.

More than 300 youngsters were kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok in the northern Borno state on April 14. It is thought that 53 managed to escape, but 273 are still missing.

Security experts from the UK, US and France are assisting Nigerian authorities in the rescue operation.

But Sky News sources have learned that the militants are likely to have laid booby traps and landmines to stop the girls being found.

Boko Haram has reportedly blown up two key transit bridges near the borders

Former air commodore Darlington Abdullahi said: "They may have made land mines, one cannot rule that out."

Search efforts have been further hampered by reports that two important bridges near the borders with Chad and Cameroon have been destroyed by militants in the last week, hindering the movements of rescue teams.

The rescue operation has been focused on the vast Sambisa forest near to where the girls were abducted. However there are also reports that some have been trafficked across Nigeria's borders.

They are believed to have been split into four different groups.

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the school raid in a video earlier this week. He threatened to sell the girls, who he described as slaves, "on the market."

Abubakar Shekau has threatened to sell the girls 'on the market'

The militant group has also admitted to carrying out a bomb attack in the capital Abuja on the same day as the abduction.

The Nigerian military has had tip-offs that the group could now be planning another attack on a nearby market.

The government has faced fierce criticism over its failure to contain the Islamist group's five-year insurgency, which has left thousands dead.

However the brazenness of April's mass abduction has particularly shocked the international community and triggered a major social media campaign.

Pope Francis is among the latest high-profile figures to take part. He tweeted: "Let us all join in prayer for the immediate release of the schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria #BringBackOurGirls."

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