Gunmen kidnapped 20 Women Near Site Of Schoolgirl Abductions

"Suspected Islamist gunmen abducted about 20
women from a nomadic settlement near the
northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok where more
than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped two months
ago, a local official said.
The ethnic Fulani women were taken after the
assailants attacked a settlement known as Garkin
Fulani at midday yesterday and ordered the
women into their vehicles at gunpoint, Alhaji Tar,
a member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, said
in a phone interview. They were driven off to an
unknown location, he said.
“We got the information that they went there and
took away the women at the time none of the
males were there,” Tar said. “The three young
men they met there could not help the women, as
the gunmen also ordered the three of them to
enter the Hilux vans and took all of them away.”
Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group whose
insurgency against Nigeria’s government has
killed thousands of people over the past five
years, abducted more than 200 girls from a
school in Chibok in April. The U.S. and U.K. sent
teams to Nigeria to help the government find the
schoolgirls, and Israel and France have pledged
assistance."