It seemed like an ordinary day for 16-year-old Hannah – instead it marked the start of a months-long nightmare that would see her abducted, gang-raped and held captive as a sex slave.
Yet even worse was still to come – her Boko Haram captors would strap a bomb to her body and ordered her to carry out a suicide attack.
Remarkably, in a twist of fate that sounds more like a Hollywood script than real life, Hannah (not her real name) managed to escape. Now, she has chosen to tell the Daily Mail her extraordinary story of survival.
In November 2013, Hannah’s life
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