Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.
Militant leader Abubakar Shekau sent a video obtained by the AFP news agency, in which he said for the first time that his group had taken the girls. In the video, Abubakar Shekau said the girls should not have been in school in the first place, but rather should get married.
"God instructed me to sell them, they are his properties and I will carry out his instructions," he said.
About 230 girls are still believed to be missing, prompting widespread criticism of the Nigerian government.
The girls were taken from their boarding school in Chibok, in the northern state of Borno, on the night of 14 April.
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