ABUJA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian authorities on Tuesday gave a description of each of the 110 missing schoolgirls in the country's northeastern state of Yobe.
Government spokesman Lai Mohammed, who gave the girls' details in Abuja, said the government has also set up a 12-member committee to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the teenage girls' abduction on Feb. 19 at the Government Girls' Science and Technical College in Dapchi area of Yobe.
The description of the abducted girls contained the name, age, and class of each of the 110 students, Mohammed said. The list was provided by the local government in Yobe.
The girls' ages range from 11 to 19 years, according to Mohammed.
The tragedy of the missing girls has brought back memories of a similar occurrence four years ago in Africa's most populous country when more than 200 schoolgirls, also from an all-girl college, were abducted by Boko Haram in the northeastern town of Chibok.
The Nigerian military on Sunday said it deployed air assets, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, in search of the missing schoolgirls.
As of Monday, the Nigerian air troops had already flown a total of 200 hours while conducting the search for the girls.
The country's air force chief Sadique Abubakar arrived in Yobe on Tuesday to superintend the search for the girls, Mohammed added.
The outlawed Boko Haram group has been trying since 2009 to establish an Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria. They have killed some 20,000 people and displaced millions of others.
