Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigerians
took to the streets Thursday to demand the government do more to rescue scores
of girls abducted by militants more than two weeks ago.
Militants seized
about 230 girls in the dead of the night at a high school in the nation's far
northeast, a hotbed for Islamist group Boko Haram.
Armed men herded the
girls out of bed and forced them into trucks on April 16 in the town of Chibok.
The convoy of trucks then disappeared into the dense forest bordering Cameroon.
Nigerians have
rallied for days to criticize the government's handling of the rescue efforts.
Hundreds wept and chanted "bring back our girls" during protests in
the capital of Abuja on Wednesday. A day later, protesters gathered in Lagos.
Shortly after the
abductions last month, frustrated Chibok residents went into the forest in
motorbikes to search for the girls.
During their
nine-hour trek, they never saw a single soldier in the forest where authorities
believe the militants took the girls, said Enoch Mark, whose daughter and two
nieces were among the kidnapped.
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