BORNO, NIGERIA- The
BokoHaram terrorist group on the latest strings of their attacks has killed
four women and Kidnapped three women in a community close to Chibok.
The attack was staged at dawn on Tuesday.
Boko Haram fighters attacked the Kautuva village at dawn,
set houses ablaze and fired on residents, according to villagers and a member
of a vigilante group working with the army.
Kautuva lies near Chibok, a town from where Boko Haram
seized 276 girls from a school in April 2014, part of a seven-year-old
insurgency to set up an Islamic state in the north. It has left some 15,000
people dead and more than 2 million displaced.
In May, the Buhari-led administration
claimed that the first set of the
missing Chibok girls had been found, which the President vowed to rescue the rest of them.
Dozens of the girls escaped in the initial melee in 2014 but
more than 200 remained missing. Parents accused former president Goodluck
Jonathan, Nigeria’s leader at the time of the kidnappings, of not doing enough
to track down the girls and bring them home.
Boko Haram, which last year pledged loyalty to the radical group
Islamic State, has kidnapped hundreds of men, women and children in their
campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate.
BokoHaram has continued to strive for territories in the
North-Eastern parts of Nigeria despite the widely acclaimed information that
the terrorist group has lost all the territories they captured.
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