Kano (Nigeria), he number of Nigerian girls taken in the latest kidnapping by Boko Haram Islamists has risen to 11, an official in the restive northeast said today.
Residents initially
said eight girls were taken when gunmen stormed a village in the Gwoza area of
Borno state late Sunday.Gwoza official Hamba Tada told Here. the attackers
snatched three more girls in a neighbouring village."After leaving Warabe
the gunmen stormed the Wala village, which is five kilometres (three miles)
away and abducted three more girls," he told AFP, referring to the two
villages.Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau said his extremists group abducted
276 girls from the nearby town of Chibok on April 14 and has threatened to
"sell them in the market."
Borno state is the
epicentre of Boko Haram's five-year Islamist uprising and the Gwoza area has
been attacked repeatedly in the past.Tada and witnesses said the latest unrest
in the area was unusual as the insurgents did not kill or injure any of the
village's residents, suggesting that abducting girls was the motivation for the
attack.Speaking to US broadcaster ABC on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama
described the Chibok abductions as "a heartbreaking situation".
Washington has deployed military experts to help hunt for the group.
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