(CNN)Boko Haram
militants handed over 21 missing Chibok schoolgirls to Nigerian
authorities Thursday morning as part of a deal brokered by the
International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss government,
Nigeria's government said.
The
girls are being taken to the northeastern city of Maiduguri, where they
will meet with the governor of Borno state, officials in the state said.
The girls were not immediately named.