09/06/2014
Women reported abducted in Nigeria; Boko Haram still holding 272 girls
Gunmen abducted 20 women from a remote settlement in northeastern Nigeria as 272 school girls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram continued to languish in captivity, according to news reports Monday. The latest abductions follow dozens of kidnappings, attacks on villages and slayings of schoolboys and teachers since last year. The 20 women were from the Fulani ethnic group, traditionally cattle herders, taken from the Garkin Fulani settlement, according to a member of a local vigilante group, Alhaji Tar, the Associated Press reported. Kidnapped girls who escaped Jossy Ola / Associated Press Some of the Nigerian girls who had been...
