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Suspected Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in north-east Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled the violence said.Several witnesses who arrived as refugees in the city of Maiduguri said yesterday that the fighters had also killed six older men in last Sunday’s raid on the village of Doron Baga, in which several houses were burned.
As many as 97 people are unaccounted for, the villagers said. The kidnappings come four months after Boko Haram, which is fighting to reinstate a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok.
“They left no men or boys in the place; only young children, girls and women,” said Halima Adamu, sobbing softly and looking exhausted after a 180 km road trip on the back of a truck to the northern city of Maiduguri. “They were shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is greatest), shooting sporadically. There was confusion everywhere. They started parking our men and boys into their vehicles, threatening to shoot whoever disobey them. Everybody was scared.” — AFP
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