Women, children taken in latest Boko Haram kidnappings

Boko Haram militants have abducted about five hundred people in north-eastern Nigeria, majority of who are mainly women and children.

This is the latest attack by the Islamist extremists which took place in Damasak, a town recently retaken by multinational forces.

A local government employee Usmanu Yusuf in a telephone interview from Maiduguri said an undetermined number of people were taken away against their will in several pickups.

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