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Baga Solo - Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started not long after an Islamic extremist group attacked her town in Nigeria. Her husband was nowhere to be found, and so she pulled her 4-year-old son onto her back and grabbed her two little girls by the hand.
The 30-year-old pregnant woman ran as fast as she could to escape the 3 January attack on her home town of Baga. It was one of the worst massacres ever carried out by Boko Haram during its five-year insurgency.
The jihadist group seeking to establish an Islamic caliphate is believed to have killed hundreds that January day, and Abakar still doesn't know whether her husband is among the dead more than two months later.
