Boko Haram kidnaps eight more Nigerians girls

Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped eight more girls in north eastern Nigeria.
The latest kidnapping happened on Sunday night in the village of Warabe, in Borno state. The girls taken were between the ages of 12 and 15.
On Monday, Boko Haram’s leader threatened to “sell” more than 230 girls seized from their school, also in Borno, on 14 April.
The Islamist insurgency by Boko Haram has left thousands dead since 2009.
The BBC’s Mansur Liman in Abuja says the area around Warabe, the site of the latest abductions, is a stronghold of the Islamist movement.
The gunmen arrived in two trucks and also seized animals and food from the village.
Communications are very poor in the area, which explains why the news took several days to emerge, our correspondent says.
Residents from a nearby town told AFP that they feared Boko Haram would target them next.
“We in Gwoza are also living in fear because of the kidnap of eight girls in Warabe,” Peter Gambo said.
“We have no security here. If the gunmen decide to pick our own girls, nobody can stop them” he said.
Warabe is also close to the Sambisa forest, where the first group of schoolgirls is thought to have been taken.
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, released a video on Monday confirming that his group had abducted them.
“God instructed me to sell them, they are his properties and I will carry out his instructions,” he said.
There is mounting domestic and international anger at the Nigerian government’s failure to find the girls.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose military sought to overcome similar tactics by the Lord’s Resistance Army, condemned the attacks.
“These people are ideologically bankrupt,” he said.
“It would be a mistake for the government of Nigeria to negotiate with these people. The most important thing is to defeat them, then negotiations can come after that,” he added.
The US called the kidnappings an “outrage” and said it was offering the Nigerian government assistance in trying to find the girls.
Officials from the US State Department said there was evidence that some of the girls had been moved into neighbouring countries such as Cameroon and Chad.
Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden”, has attacked numerous educational institutions in northern Nigeria.
It has also attacked targets in the capital Abuja, with the deadliest attack so far coming on the same day the 200 girls were kidnapped in Chibok.
In that attack, at least 70 people died in a bomb blast in the suburb of Nyanya.
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