U.N. child agency's report says Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria since 2013

This image, titled 'Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived,' by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times and released by World Press Photo on Thursday, was awarded first prize in the people stories category. It shows Falmata, age 15, on Sept. 22, as part of portraits of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants. It was taken in Maiduguri, in Nigeria's Borno state. The girls were strapped with explosives and ordered to blow themselves up in crowded areas, but managed to escape and find help instead of detonating the bombs. Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group whose name translates roughly as 'Western education is forbidden,' expressly targets schools and has abducted more than 2,000 women and girls since 2014. | AP