Suspected Boko Haram foot soldiers have reportedly kidnapped no fewer than 400 women and children from Damasak town in Borno State, Reuters reports.
It was gathered that the victims were earlier freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad before they were recaptured on Tuesday. This development is coming with just less than five days to the presidential election.
The violent group had in April 2014 abducted over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok. Though the military was yet to confirm the new development, but residents said most of the victims were children and young women.
“They (insurgents) took 506 young women and children (in Damasak). They killed about 50 of them before leaving. We don’t know if they killed others after leaving, but they took the rest with them,” a trader who gave his name as Souleymane Ali told Reuters in the town.
Ali said his wife and three of his daughters were among those seized.
“Two of them were supposed to get married this year. (Boko Haram) said ‘They are slaves so we’re taking them because they belong to us,’” he said.
Another resident who identified himself as Mohamed Ousmane, said the militants took his two wives and three of their children.
Similarly, a 40-year-old resident who gave her name as Fana said the insurgents had rounded up captives in the main mosque before taking them out of town.
She said she saved her two children by hiding them in her house.
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