The video, cited by the SITE Intelligence Group, was posted by Ahmad Salkida, a Nigerian journalist known to have good contacts in Boko Haram.
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It is two years since more than 270 students were taken from their school in Northern Nigeria.
Troops “successfully repelled” the Boko Haram attack in the town of Kangarwa on Sunday, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement.
In the video, a masked man stands behind a group of the girls, and says some of them have been killed in air strikes. “These girls have been kidnapped during education, which endlessly disturbed me” – the woman has said.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has waged an insurgency to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria that has killed some 15,000 people and displaced more than two million. Throughout 2015, Nigerian military announced rescue of hundreds of people, but the missing schoolgirls were not among them.
Dozens of the kidnapped school girls made famous by the hashtag campaign #BringBackOurGirls in 2014 have been killed in airstrikes, according to a video released by the girl’s captors.
While the government claimed that all girls have been rescued, video has shown that about 50 of them are still live in Boko Haram. She pleaded with the Nigerian government to release Boko Haram prisoners so that they too can be freed. Nigeria’s Ministry of Information and Culture, Nigeria said in a Facebook post Sunday government officials are communicating with the individuals allegedly behind the video. This video, the first after several months seem to prove that numerous girls are still alive, showing what their spokesman claimed were bodies of girls killed by airstrikes. Another is interviewed asking parents to appeal to the government. “It is extremely hard and rare to hit innocent people during airstrike [s] because the operations is done through precision attack on identified and registered targets and locations”, said Abubakar in a statement reported by Premium Times.
In the background, several girls look visibly distressed and dab their eyes. Yakubu’s father, Dorcas Yakubu tells CNN, “I’m very, very happy I saw my daughter on the video, and I’m very happy she’s alive”.
A militant in fatigues, concealing his face and holding an assault rifle, delivers the message in Hausa, in front of the group of girls.
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Earlier this year, the Nigerian military members found one of the Chibok girls wandering the forest.
