Over 50 women and an undisclosed number of children have been abducted by Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria, media reports said.
Locals of Michika and Gulak communities in Adamawa State, Northeastern of Nigeria, Monday raised the alarm over the abduction of over 50 women and an undisclosed number of children by Boko Haram extremists, this day live reported.
The news of the latest abduction coincided with the revelation by the Minister of Education Ibrahim Shekarau that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) results of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by members of the sect in April has been released.
The girls were taking their school certificate exams when they were kidnapped from Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State.
On the abduction of the women and children, a resident in Husra village in Michika, Adamawa State, who identified himself as Mallam Musa Yaro-Uba Musa, revealed that hundreds of people including women and children in the Northern part of Adamawa State were languishing in the custody of the insurgents.
"Members of the extermist group had called women last Saturday to collect food items from them at Gulak, the secretariat of Madagali Local Government Area, following which they selected some of them and took them away," a security source confirmed this.
Last month, the extremists slew Nigeria's highest Mulsim cleric and killed scores of residents in a Nigerian town on the border with Cameroon that they captured in recent raids.