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Militants have killed 35 people and kidnapped no fewer than 185, fleeing residents said yesterday of an attack in Borno State town Gumsuri, 20 kilometres to Chibok, where nearly 300 schoolgirls were taken hostage in April.
Teenager Aji Ibrahim said he was lucky to escape into the bushes.
“No doubt, they were Boko Haram members because they were chanting `Allahu akbar’ (God is great) while shooting at people and torching houses,” he told The Associated Press.
The attack on Gumsuri happened on Sunday night, said a security official and a local government officer, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media. The news took days to emerge because the militants have destroyed communications towers in the area.
Although nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, Boko Haram is believed to be behind it.
The people kidnapped by the militants include women and children. The hostages were carted away on trucks towards Sambisa Forest, a notorious rebel stronghold, two local officials and a vigilante leader said.
Both officials, who requested anonymity, said the local government established the number of those abducted through contacting families, ward heads and emirs.
A vigilante leader based in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, Usman Kakani, told AFP that fighters who were in Gumsari during the attack provided a figure of 191 abducted, including women, girls and boys.
Gumsuri is roughly 70 kilometres (43 miles) south of Maiduguri and falls on the road that leads to Chibok.
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Boko Haram has increasingly used kidnappings to boost its supply of child fighters, porters and young women who have reportedly been used as sex slaves.
The mass abductions in Chibok brought unprecedented attention to Boko Haram’s five-year extremist uprising, and President Goodluck Jonathan vowed to end the conflict.
But violence has escalated since April and the Gumsuri attack will no doubt cast further doubt on Nigeria’s ability to contain the crisis.
Also yesterday, Cameroon’s army said it had killed 116 Boko Haram fighters who attacked one of its bases. AFP quoted Defence ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck.
Militants ambushed a column of army vehicles, using an improvised explosive device and then hundreds attacked in the region of Amchide, 65 km (40 miles) north of Maroua, at around 10.30 a.m. local time (0930 GMT).
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