News Update Gunmen abduct 8 more girls in Nigeria MAIDUGURI - Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said today. A police source, who could not be named, said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food. The abduction of the girls, aged 12 to 15, follows the kidnapping of more than 200 other schoolgirls by the Islamist militant group last month. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatened in a video released to the media on Monday to sell the girls abducted from a secondary school on April 14 on the market. The kidnappings by the Islamists, who say they are fighting for an Islamic state in Nigeria, have shocked a country long inured to the violence around the northeast. The militarys inability to find the girls in three weeks, has led to protests in the northeast, Abuja and Lagos, the commercial capital. – Nampa-Reuters
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 15:08:24 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015