Boko Haram At It Again,Abducts 60 Women In Adamawa

Forty of the women were said to have been
abducted in Waga Mangoro and the other 20
were forcefully taken away from Grata, both in
troubled Adamawa State.
PUNCH reports that some of the fleeing
residents from the area, who called journalists
in Yola on the telephone lamented that scores
of insurgents riding motorcycles and driving
vans had invaded their towns. That they were
able to sneak out of the captured towns on
Tuesday, but that their villages were ravaged
on Saturday.
One of those that was about to flee the area,
Tizhe Kwada told journalists that the area had
been under the control of the insurgents for
about two months now. Kwada claimed that
the insurgents cordoned off the entire town
and went from one house to another in Garta
in search of young women who they took in
their vans to an unknown destination.
He said:
“The insurgents are still in the area. And
they have slaughtered many men in
Garta and abducted many young
women. We also heard from residents of
Wagga that they killed two men and took
40 women away from there.”
A community leader from Michika, a
neighbouring town to the two attacked towns,
Emmanuel Kwache, while confirming the
incident to journalists in Yola on Wednesday
said:
“I got the information from villagers in
the area that the rampage was still in
progress.”
As of the time of filing the story, Punch says
both the military and security agencies could
not be reached for confirmation. Thought they were in talks with the government.