Going by this story, it appears Boko Haram militants have not
given up completely. According to Reuters report, the terrorists 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, residents said on Tuesday.
There was no immediate official confirmation of the figure. "They
took 506 young women and children (in Damasak). They killed about 50 of them
before leaving," a trader called Souleymane Ali said. "We don’t know
if they killed others after leaving, but they took the rest with them."
Troops from Niger and Chad 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 remain 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.
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