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Suspected Boko Haram Gunmen Kidnap 8 More Girls in Nigeria
Heather Murdock
May 06, 2014 8:16 AM
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls aged 12 to 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in northeast Nigeria overnight, police and residents said on Tuesday.
?They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army color. They started shooting in our village,'' said Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened.
A police source, who could not be named, said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food. The Islamist rebels are still holding more than 200 girls they abducted from a secondary school on April 14.
Earlier Tuesday, analysts said an announcement by the terrorist group Boko Haram earlier this week may have been timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum for Africa that begins in Abuja, Nigeria, on Wednesday.
Militants threaten to sell girls
On Monday, Islamist militants released a video in which they threatened to sell more than 250 girls who were kidnapped from their school in northern Nigeria last month. No girls appeared in the video...
Suspected Boko Haram Gunmen Kidnap 8 More Girls in Nigeria
Heather Murdock
May 06, 2014 8:16 AM
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls aged 12 to 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in northeast Nigeria overnight, police and residents said on Tuesday.
?They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army color. They started shooting in our village,'' said Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened.
A police source, who could not be named, said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food. The Islamist rebels are still holding more than 200 girls they abducted from a secondary school on April 14.
Earlier Tuesday, analysts said an announcement by the terrorist group Boko Haram earlier this week may have been timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum for Africa that begins in Abuja, Nigeria, on Wednesday.
Militants threaten to sell girls
On Monday, Islamist militants released a video in which they threatened to sell more than 250 girls who were kidnapped from their school in northern Nigeria last month. No girls appeared in the video...