Abducted Nigerian girl scared to go back to school

BAUCHI, Nigeria: One of the teenagers who escaped from extremists who abducted more than 300 schoolgirls says the kidnapping was “too terrifying for words,” and she’s scared to go back to school.
Nineteen-year-old science student Sarah Lawan tells The Associated Press that more girls could have escaped but they were frightened by threats to shoot them.
She says they were driven in a truck for hours after the gunmen took them from their school in the pre-dawn hours of April 15 before the truck stopped.
They were asked to get down and she and a friend bolted into the bushes. Lawan spoke in a phone interview from Chibok, the site of the mass abduction in northeast Nigeria.
She is among 53 students escaped while 276 remain captive.
The failure to rescue those who remain captive four weeks later has attracted mounting national and international outrage. Last week, Nigeria was forced to accept international help in the search, after ignoring offers for weeks.
More experts are expected in Nigeria to help in the search, including US hostage negotiators and others from Britain, France, China and Spain.
“I am pained that my other colleagues could not summon the courage to run away with me,” Lawan said. “Now I cry each time I come across their parents and see how they weep when they see me.”
Police say 53 students have escaped.