The Nigerian government on Sunday confirmed that 110 girls are missing after a Boko Haram attack on a school in the northeast. The insurgents drove into the town of Dapchi a week ago and attacked the girls' school, sending hundreds of students fleeing.

Some of the attackers were camouflaged. Witnesses say a number of students thought the attackers were soldiers. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement that the incident is a "national disaster", and that "the entire country stands as one with the girls' families". The tragedy of the missing girls has revived memories of the 2014 mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok that shook the world.