The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video showing some of the schoolgirls they abducted from Chibok.
Some 50 girls are shown with a gunman who demands the release of fighters in return for the girls and says some girls died in air strikes. The group is said to be holding more than 200 of the 276 final-year girls it seized from a school in April 2014.
It is reported that Non-Muslims were forcibly converted to Islam, and it is feared that many of the schoolgirls have been sexually abused and forced into "marriage" by their captors.
The video begins with a shot of a masked man, carrying a gun, speaking to the camera. He says that some of the girls have been wounded and have life-threatening injuries and that 40 have been "married".
Speaking in the Hausa language, the gunman says the girls on display will "never" be returned if the government does not release Boko Haram fighters who have been "in detention for ages".
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