LAGOS (Reuters) - One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by jihadist group Boko Haram from their school in northeast Nigeria’s Chibok in 2014 has been found by soldiers, a Nigerian army spokesman said on Saturday, weeks after the militants released 21 of the girls. 
 
 Around 270 girls were kidnapped in April 2014 by the Islamist militant group, which has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate in north-east Nigeria. 
 
 Dozens escaped in the initial melee, but more than 200 remained missing for more than two years. 
 
 Sani Usman said the girl, Maryam Ali Maiyanga, was discovered by troops who were screening escapees from Boko Haram’s base in the Sambisa forest on Saturday morning in Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, in Borno State. 
 
 “She was discovered to be carrying a 10-month-old son, named Ali. She has been taken to the unit’s medical facility for (a) proper medical check up,” said Usman. 
 
 Bring Back Our Girls, a group of campaigners with close ties to relatives of those abducted, said “preliminary investigations” showed the girl was number 198 on its register of the kidnapped girls. 
 
 In a statement, the campaign group said she was from Askira Uba, a district of Borno state, and was abducted along with her twin who is yet to return. 
 
 Last month, 21 of the girls were released by Boko Haram following talks with the government brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government. The government has vowed to rescue the girls still being held. 
 
 The first of the schoolgirls to be found was discovered by soldiers on the edge of the Sambisa forest, a former colonial game reserve in Borno state about 100 km (60 miles) from the village of Chibok, in May. 
 
 MILITARY OFFENSIVE 
 
 Nigeria’s military has been carrying out a large-scale offensive in the vast woodland area and other parts of Borno state, the epicenter of the insurgency, in the last few weeks. 
 
 Usman said troops killed 14 suspected Boko Haram militants on Friday during a clash at Mallam Fatori, northern Borno State. 
 
 “We lost an officer and four soldiers, while four other soldiers sustained various degrees of injuries during the encounter,” he said. 
 
 Boko Haram has kidnapped hundreds of men, women and children but the kidnapping of the Chibok girls brought worldwide attention to the group and widespread condemnation. 
 
 The group, which last year pledged loyalty to the militant group Islamic State, controlled a swathe of land around the size of Belgium in early 2015. 
 
 Nigeria’s army, aided by troops from neighboring countries, has since recaptured most of the territory, although the jihadist group still stages suicide bombings in the northeast, as well as in neighboring Niger and Cameroon. ||||| Story highlights Girl is being evaluated medically after her discovery, army says 
 
 She is said to be among schoolgirls that Boko Haram militants abducted in Nigeria in 2014 
 
 (CNN) One of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 was found Saturday by the Nigerian army, the army said. 
 
 She was discovered carrying a 10-month-old son among a group that had escaped from a Boko Haram hideout in Sambisa Forest, the army said. 
 
 "This morning as part of the operation we've been conducting, we rescued one of the Chibok girls. ... Our troops in Pulka rescued her along with a Boko Haram member," Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor said at a press briefing Saturday. 
 
 Maiyanga is said to be one of the schoolgirls abducted in 2014. 
 
 "And of course, the baby, you can see with her, is a 10-month-old baby." 
 
 The girl, identified as Maryam Ali Maiyanga, is said to have been among the 276 girls and women that Boko Haram militants herded from bed in the middle of the night at a boarding school in Chibok in April 2014. ||||| One of the school students snatched by Boko Haram when they raided a Nigerian dormitory has been found wandering through a small north-eastern village, the first confirmed escape since the atrocity that shocked the world in April this year. 
 
 Of the almost 300 girls and young women rounded up and carted away after Boko Haram stormed Chibok secondary school, a handful fled during the initial confusion. A relentless string of attacks in remote northern towns in Boko Haram’s stronghold of Borno state prompted a summit in Paris that led to a renewed military push from Nigeria, neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger, and western allies including the US and the UK. But five months on, 276 of the girls remain in captivity and abductions continue to be used as a strategy by the extremists. 
 
 Conflicting details emerged about how the 20-year-old was found, with officials saying she was dropped off by suspected militants, while residents said she had escaped. 
 
 The police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said: “I can confirm that on 24 September 2014 at about 5pm, a girl, 20 years of age, among the abducted Chibok girls was dropped off by suspected Boko Haram militants at Mubi in Adamawa state. Her condition is stable. She is getting the best of medical attention. The information we have is that she is one of the abducted girls. Other details will be made known to you in due course.” 
 
 Locals said she was found wandering through fields on the outskirts of Hong, a district in Adamawa, which neighbours Borno state. “Nobody knows how she came here. She was either released or escaped. She had been running around the bush for about four days before she reached here,” said Musa Sule, a local farmer. Locals and officials said a Boko Haram cell is known to be located in Damboa, more than 75 miles (120km) away. The sect was previously headquartered in the sprawling Sambisa forest, near Damboa, and continues to use it as a base and training camp. 
 
 The first confirmation of an escape comes after the Nigerian army earlier this week said dozens of girls had been released and were being looked after in an army barracks. They later retracted the statement and said none of the teenagers had been freed. 
 
 The young woman was visited by a member of the “Abuja Family”, a small group of relatives and supporters who hold daily rallies in the capital, Abuja. The member told the Guardian the young woman was in a state of extreme trauma and was unable to talk about what he called her “torture”. 
 
 “Right now she’s not in a position to explain exactly how she escaped. All we know is she either fled or was released by the group because they felt she had become a burden,” he said. 
 
 The escape could potentially shed light on where the other girls and young women still in captivity are being held. Boko Haram is in talks with the Nigerian government to secure a hostage-swap deal for dozens of their senior commanders currently in prison, although all previous negotiations have foundered. 
 
 As a group of parents gathered in Abuja to hold their daily vigil, most were torn between joy and despair. “We are all happy that one of our girls has escaped,” another father said, speaking on condition of anonymity as all the group members have agreed to do. “But it is difficult seeing the state the girl was in, and to think about what is happening to the others. We cannot be truly be happy until all our girls are brought home.” 
 
 Previous escapees interviewed by the Guardian spoke of multiple rapes, mutilations and forcible conversions. Several entered a catatonic trance at the mention of the sect’s name.
– One of the 276 women and girls kidnapped from a Nigerian boarding school by Boko Haram in 2014 was found by the Nigerian army Saturday, CNN reports. The girl, identified by Reuters as Maryam Ali Maiyanga, was carrying a 10-month-old baby, her son Ali. She was with a group of people who escaped a Boko Haram base in the Sambisa Forest. Maiyanga was number 198 on Bring Back Our Girls' list of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014. She was abducted with her twin sister, who is still missing. Of the 276 girls and women taken from the Chibok boarding school, 57 quickly escaped from Boko Haram. Another was found in May after escaping, and 21 were freed in October as part of a deal made by the Red Cross and the Swiss government. The Nigerian government says it's negotiating with Boko Haram to release 83 more of the schoolgirls. The rest, sources tell CNN, are either dead or don't want to leave Boko Haram. The terrorist group has been fighting for seven years to set up an Islamic state in Nigeria, the BBC reports. It's killed some 15,000 people and displaced more than 2 million during its insurgency.