Kano (Nigeria) – Eight more Nigerian girls have been kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram Islamists from Nigeria’s embattled northeast, residents said on Tuesday.
Previously the extremist group’s leader claimed responsibility for abducting more than 200 schoolgirls last month.
Gunmen abducted the girls from the village of Warabe as global outrage grew three weeks after the mass kidnapping in the nearby town of Chibok, which the UN warned may be a crime against humanity.
Boko Haram Chief Abubakar Shekau said the extremist Islamist group was holding the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok on April 14 as “slaves,” and threatened to “sell them in the market,” in a video release.
The parents of those taken from Chibok said Shekau’s video had made an already horrifying situation even worse.
“All along, we have been imagining what could happen to our daughters in the hands of these heinous people,” Lawal Zanna, the mother of one the hostages, told AFP by phone from Chibok.
“Now Shekau has confirmed our fears,” he said.
According to Abdullahi Sani, a resident of Warabe,the gunmen had moved “door to door, looking for girls,” late Sunday.
“They forcefully took away eight girls between the ages of 12 and 15,” he added, in an account confirmed by other witnesses.
He said the attackers did not kill anyone, which was “surprising”, and suggested that abducting girls was the motive for the attack.
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