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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of people have taken to the streets today in Nigeria's main cities, demanding the safe return of girls who were abducted two years ago.
The girls were taken by Boko Haram (BOH'-koh hah-RAHM') extremists from a school in the northeastern town of Chibok (chih-BAWK').
Today's protests happened a day after CNN broadcast parts of a Boko Haram video of girls wearing the Islamic hijab. CNN also carried its own images of tearful mothers, including one who reached out to a computer screen as she recognized her kidnapped daughter.
A schoolmate says she cried with joy when she saw the video appearing to show some of the kidnapped girls.
The extremists seized 276 girls who had gathered for science exams. More than 200 remain missing.
The video shows 15 girls — one with a mischievous grin, one looking uncompromising and downright defiant, and one downcast. They give the date as December 25th of last year.
CNN reported that the video was sent in December to negotiators trying to free the girls.
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168-c-17-(Michelle Faul (mee-SHEHL' fawl), AP correspondent)-"identified their daughters"-AP correspondent Michelle Faul reports that a video from a Nigerian extremist group appears to show some of the girls who were kidnapped in the country's Chibok region. ((Chibok is pronounced chih-BAWK') (14 Apr 2016)
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169-c-15-(Michelle Faul (mee-SHEHL' fawl), AP correspondent)-"of her friends"-AP correspondent Michelle Faul says a young Nigerian woman who escaped from the extremists says the video looks authentic to her. (14 Apr 2016)
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APPHOTO NIN101: People march during a protest calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school who were abducted two years ago, in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, April 14, 2016. A schoolmate says she cried with joy when she saw a Boko Haram video appearing to show some of Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok girls, with images of tearful parents recognizing their daughters, who have not been heard from since the mass abduction by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram two years ago.(AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga) (14 Apr 2016)
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APPHOTO XSA102: FILE - In this Monday, May 19, 2014 file photo, Martha Mark, the mother of kidnapped school girl Monica Mark cries as she displays her photo, in the family house, in Chibok, Nigeria. A schoolmate says she cried with joy when she saw a Boko Haram video appearing to show some of Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok girls, with images of tearful parents recognizing their daughters, who have not been heard from since the mass abduction by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram two years ago. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File) (14 Apr 2016)
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