15/08/2014

Boko Haram fighters abduct dozens during village raid

Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in north-eastern Nigeria, loading them into trucks and driving them off, witnesses who escaped the violence said on Friday. The kidnappings come four months after Boko Haram, which is fighting to reinstate a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok. They are still missing. Several witnesses who fled after Sunday?s raid on Doron Baga, a sandy fishing...
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