A nurse walks past coffins outside a morgue at Asokoro hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, April. 15, 2014, following a blast on Monday that destroyed more than 30 vehicles and caused secondary explosions as their fuel tanks exploded and burned. The Monday attack just miles from Nigeria's seat of government, leaves at least 72 feared dead, and increases doubts about the military's ability to contain an Islamic uprising that is dividing the country on religious lines as never before.(AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)
April 15, 2014 - 8:51 AM
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Officials say suspected Islamic extremists have abducted about 100 female students from a school in northeast Nigeria — but some of the teens managed to escape from the back of an open truck.
Borno state police commissioner Tanko Lawan said some of the girls were abducted Monday night from a school in Chibok, on the edge of the Sambisa Forest that is an insurgent hideout.
A State Security Service official said gunmen killed a soldier and police officer guarding the school and took off with at least 100 students.
Islamic extremists have been abducting girls to use as cooks and sex slaves.
Extremists also are blamed for Monday morning's explosion at a busy bus station in Nigeria's capital that killed at least 75 people and wounded 141.
News from © The Associated Press, 2014