They found two girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, but more than 200 remain captive

ABUJA, Nigeria - Hours after the Nigerian President Mohamed Buhari to meet Thursday with Amina Ali, one student who spent more than two years kidnapped by Boko Haram, Nigerian officials announced that another of the missing girls had been found.

Soldiers and militia guards managed to rescue Serah Luka during an operation in which he killed 35 Boko Haram fighters and freed 97 women and children, according to the Nigerian army.

Luka, who the military said was receiving medical care, had been at boarding Chibok village of little more than two months when fighters attacked and abducted about 300 girls in April 2014.

On Thursday morning, Mohamed Buhari received Amina Ali who was rescued on Tuesday. She visited the presidential villa and shook hands with the president as she held the crying baby, a girl named Safiya 4 months, before a crowd of journalists.

Amina Ali wandered through the jungle when they found members of a militia guards who were searching for fighters Boko Haram, he told Aboku Gaji, local commander of the group.

In 2014 the kidnapping of about 300 girls from a boarding school of the Nigerian people Chibok shocked the world and increased the pressure on the government to confront Boko Haram, the Islamist military group that for years sowing terror in parts of northern Nigeria.

Some girls managed to escape shortly after the guerrillas attacked the school and her companions took. But Ali is the first that has been rescued after the incident.

Still they are missing more than 200 girls abducted in April 2014.

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Luka Serah in Damboa, Nigeria; She is the second girl found the nearly 300 abducted from school by Boko Haram Chibok. Credit Nigerian Armed Forces
An army spokesman claimed credit for the rescue of Ali, who was with her baby and a man who identified himself as her husband. The commander explained that the man had also been captured by Boko Haram and were married while captive. The pair had escaped from the camp of the guerrillas.

However, in a statement issued later, the army said the man was suspected of belonging to Boko Haram. Members of the vigilante group led Ali to Chibok, where her mother saw her and confirmed her identity.

She told her family that Chibok other girls were in the jungle, but six had died.

With her baby, Ali told his neighbors that had held her captive in a village in the jungle of Sambisa along with 60 other women. Some were Chibok and others came from different communities.