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.