Updated On: 12 May, 2014 08:45 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>Israel joins the international effort to trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria but Washington said US troops would stay out of any rescue mission</p>

Lagos: Israel joined the international effort to trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria but Washington said US troops would stay out of any rescue mission.

People from all faiths gather to pray for the immediate release of the abducted Nigerian school girls during an interfaith prayer meeting held at the Blue lagoon Beach in Durban on May 11, 2014. Pic: AFP