30 Adolescents Abducted By Boko Haram Sect In Maiduguri

Around 30 adolescents, some of them girls aged as young as 11, have been abducted in northeast Nigeria over the weekend by suspected Boko Haram rebels, a local village chief told reporters according to Vanguard Newspaper.

“The insurgents… grabbed young people, boys and girls, from our region,” said Alhaji Shettima Maina, who is in charge of the Mafa village around 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the city of Maiduguri.


“They took all boys aged 13 and over… and all girls aged 11 and more. According to our information, 30 young people were abducted in the last two days.”

Another village elder, Mallam Ashiekh Mustapha, confirmed the account.


Both men said 17 people were also killed in recent days in a Boko Haram attack on the nearby village of Ndongo