Nigeria's Boko Haram kidnaps more girls as outrage grows

May 07, 2014 02:17

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped eight more girls from Nigeria's embattled northeast, residents today said, after the extremist group's leader claimed responsibility for abducting more than 200 schoolgirls last month.

The girls were seized by gunmen in the village of Warabe as global outrage grew three weeks after the mass kidnapping in the nearby town of Chibok, which the UN warned may be a crime against humanity.

Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau said the extremist Islamist group was holding the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok on April 14 as "slaves," and threatened to "sell them in the market," in a video obtained by AFP yesterday.

The parents of those taken from Chibok said Shekau's video had made an already horrifying situation even worse.

"All along, we have been imagining what could happen to our daughters in the hands of these heinous people," Lawal Zanna, the mother of one the hostages, told AFP by phone from Chibok.

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