Looking sad and frightened, dozens of barefoot girls sat huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils as they chanted Quranic verses in Arabic. Some Christians among them said they had converted to Islam. In the video released on Monday, the Boko Haram terrorists offered the first public glimpse of what it claimed were some of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped from a Nigerian school.

In the video, two of the girls were singled out for questioning. "Why have you become a Muslim?" one girl, who looked to be in her early teens, was asked.

"The reason why I became a Muslim is because the path we are on is not the right path," the girl said, nervously shifting her body from side to side, her eyes darting back and forth.

"We should enter the right path so that Allah will be happy with us," added the girl.

AP