According to Sahara Reporters, Boko Haram militants have
kidnapped a new set of youths, numbering about 40, in Malari village in
southern Borno State, fleeing residents said today
.
The Boko
Haram group stormed Malari, in Damboa Local Government area, on the eve of the
New Year at about 9pm and abducted the youths.
Ali Mallami,
who fled the area into Maiduguri, said the militants forcibly gathered all the
males in the village supposedly for preaching, and thereafter left with many of
them.
"They
gathered us in front of village head's house for preaching there after which
they took away not less than 50 of our
young youths between the ages of 15 to 30 years,” he said. “We are afraid
now because it was less than a month that they abducted more than 200 young
girls and women in Gumsiri village."
Ibrahim
Musa, another resident who fled to Biu told our reporter that three of his
sons, and another belonging to his younger brother, were among the abducted.
He said the
youths were parked in two Hilux vehicles which headed toward Sambisa forest,
the infamous Boko Haram camp, about 20 kilometres away.
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