Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole deployed in Pulka have rescued one of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists earlier in twenty-fourteen.

Deputy Director of Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, said the girl was rescued today.

According to Nwachukwu, so far, preliminary investigations revealed that the young girl identified as Salomi Pagu was the same as the Chibok girl published on serial eighty-six of the online list of abducted Chibok girls.

He said currently, the girl who was intercepted in the company of another young girl, Jamila Adams, about fourteen years old with a child, were in the safe custody of troops and receiving medical attention.