Schoolgirls
who escaped from Boko Haram kidnappers in the village of Chibok, some
of more than 200 kidnapped girls, arrive at the Government house to
speak with Borno state governor Kashim Shettima in Maiduguri, Nigeria,
on June 2, 2014.
Suspected Islamist gunmen abducted
about 20 women from a nomadic settlement near the northeastern
Nigerian town of Chibok where more than 200 schoolgirls were
kidnapped two months ago, a local official said.
The ethnic Fulani women were taken after the assailants
attacked a settlement known as Garkin Fulani at midday yesterday
and ordered the women into their vehicles at gunpoint, Alhaji
Tar, a member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, said in a phone
interview. They were driven off to an unknown location, he said.
“We got the information that they went there and took away
the women at the time none of the males were there,” Tar said.
“The three young men they met there could not help the women,
as the gunmen also ordered the three of them to enter the Hilux
vans and took all of them away.”
Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group whose insurgency
against Nigeria’s government has killed thousands of people over
the past five years, abducted more than 200 girls from a school
in Chibok in April. The U.S. and U.K. sent teams to Nigeria to
help the government find the schoolgirls, and Israel and France
have pledged assistance.
Schoolgirls
who escaped from Boko Haram kidnappers in the village of Chibok, some
of more than 200 kidnapped girls, arrive at the Government house to
speak with Borno state governor Kashim Shettima in Maiduguri, Nigeria,
on June 2, 2014.
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