Wednesday, 15 June 2016

News; BokoHaram kills at least four and kidnaps three women in Kautuva village.

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.

Chibok was where the group snatched more than 200 girls two years ago, residents and survivors said.

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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