Parents Say 234 Girls Captured from Nigerian School

The parents of Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted last week by Islamist extremists say 234 girls are still missing, a much higher figure than authorities have given. On Monday, the parents said they have been working on compiling a complete registry of all the girls who were abducted from the Chibok secondary school in the country's northeast. Authorities have said 129 girls were kidnapped last week. They say 52 of them later escaped, leaving 77 still unaccounted for. The discrepancy...

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