Not Again! 20 Women Abducted By B'Haram Near Chibok

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 0
Category: Boko Haram News
 

Suspected Islamist gunmen, Boko Haram have abducted about 20 women from a nomadic settlement near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok where almost 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped almost two months ago, a local official said.

The ethnic Fulani women were taken after the assailants attacked a settlement known as Garkin Fulani at midday Sunday and ordered the women into their vehicles at gunpoint according to Alhaji Tar, a member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, who spoke to Bloomberg in a phone interview. 
Tar further said they were driven off to an unknown location.

“We got the information that they went there and took away the women at the time none of the males were there,” Tar said. “The three young men they met there could not help the women, as the gunmen also ordered the three of them to enter the Hilux vans and took all of them away.”

Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group whose insurgency against Nigeria’s government has killed thousands of people over the past five years, abducted more than 250 girls from a school in Chibok on April 14th.

 The U.S. and U.K. sent teams to Nigeria to help the government find the schoolgirls, and Israel and France have pledged assistance.

Borno Police Commissioner Lawal Tanko’s mobile phone couldn't be reached as at the time of this report.

Separately in Borno, the Nigerian army killed more than 50 suspected insurgents in a June 7 operation which prevented rebel assaults on villages in Borno and Adamawa states, military authorities said today.

“The attack was launched on the terrorists as they filed out of the forest to embark on their mission,” Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. Four soldiers were wounded, it said

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