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Nigeria Islamists still holding 85 schoolgirls after raid: state

-Reuters

Maiduguri, Nigeria: Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week, although the other 44 were free, the state government said on Saturday.

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