Kayode Idowu The Boko Haram terrorist group laid siege to two Borno villages, abducting girls, women and boys and destroying properties. In the first attack on Thursday morning, the militants were said to have kidnapped 18 girls and four women at Pulka village, in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, which shares border with […]
Kayode Idowu
The Boko Haram terrorist group laid siege to two Borno villages, abducting girls, women and boys and destroying properties.
In the first attack on Thursday morning, the militants were said to have kidnapped 18 girls and four women at Pulka village, in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, which shares border with the Republic of Cameroon.
According to a member of Civilian JTF, Isa Idris, the gunmen arrived Pulka at about 6am on Thursday in a convoy of pickup trucks, and after several gunshots that held the villagers spellbound, they took away some of the girls.
One of the residents of the village who spoke anonymously to our correspondent on the telephone, said during the siege some of the girls were abducted while they were fleeing into the bush.
He said that four women were “forcefully bundled” into a waiting pickup truck with little resistance from the men who were awestruck.
He said the insurgents burst into the village through the eastern flank; before attacking the village during which they abducted girls between the ages of 13 and 17.
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