Their faces scratched and bleeding, the pitiful remains of their
once-smart school uniforms ripped and filthy, the two teenage girls were
tethered to trees, wrists bound with rope and left in a clearing in the
Nigerian bush to die by Islamist terror group Boko Haram.
Despite having been molested and dragged through the bush, they were alive – but only just – in the sweltering tropical heat and humidity.

