Nigeria militants kidnap more girls from village
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Armed men in Nigeria have abducted eight girls from the north east of the country, as the government struggles to find 276 schoolgirls kidnapped three weeks ago
Woman protest in Lagos demanding the release of the abducted secondary school girls from the remote village of Chibok
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped eight girls aged between 12 and 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in northeast Nigeria.
“They were many, and all of them carried guns,” said Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened.
“They came in two vehicles painted in army colour. They started shooting in our village.”
A police source said the girls were taken away in the early hours of Tuesday on trucks, along with looted livestock and food. The Islamist rebels are still holding 276 girls they abducted from a secondary school on April 14.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video released on Monday that Allah had told him to sell the girls taken by his fighters from a secondary school in the village of Chibok, in northeastern Borno state.
