Boko Haram militants have kidnapped
more than 400 women and children from
the northern Nigerian town of Damasak
that was freed this month by troops from
Niger and Chad, Reuters quoted residents
as saying on Tuesday.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a
video released by the Islamist group
There was no immediate official
confirmation of the figure, but the Islamist
group has previously carried out mass
kidnappings. Boko Haram in April 2014
adopted over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok.

“They (insurgents) took 506 young women
and children (in Damasak). They killed
about 50 of them before leaving. We don’t
know if they killed others after leaving,
but they took the rest with them,” a trader
called Souleymane Ali told Reuters in the
town.
Troops of the African joint force last week
found the bodies of at least 70 people in
an apparent execution site under a bridge
leading out of Damasak, where the streets
remained strewn with debris and burnt-
out cars after the fighting.
Ali said his wife and three of his daughters
were among those seized.

“Two of them were supposed to get
married this year. (Boko Haram) said
‘They are slaves so we’re taking them
because they belong to us,’” he said.
Mohamed Ousmane, another trader, said
the militants took his two wives and three
of their children.
A 40-year-old resident who gave her
name as Fana said fighters had rounded
up captives in the main mosque before
taking them out of town. She said she
saved her two children by hiding them in
her house.

Source:

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