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A Week After Military Clear Out; Boko Haram Reportedly Abduct Over 400 Women And Children From Damask

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By Chris Nomjov

Terror group, Boko Haram, on Tuesday, abducted over 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damask; Reuters quoted residents, as saying. Damask, a territory in North Eastern state, Borno, had been under the grip of Boko Haram insurgents since November last year and was only last week, freed by troops from Niger and Chad.

Defence Headquarters is yet to issue an immediate official confirmation of the figure or the incident. The insurgent Islamist group has previously carried out mass kidnappings. Boko Haram in April 2014 adopted over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok; whose whereabouts are still couched in national mystery.

News agency, Reuters quoted a resident who witnessed the abduction as saying that more than 50 were killed as the sect raided the northern Nigerian town.

“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.

 

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