Boko Haram seizes 40 boys, men in northern Nigeria

January 03, 2015 19:28

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped 40 boys and young men in a remote village in northeast Nigerian Borno state on New Year's Eve, residents who fled the isolated settlement said today.

Scores of Boko Haram militants stormed the Malari village around 8:00 pm (local time) and whisked away the males, aged between 10 and 23, into the nearby Sambisa forest, believed to be one of the Islamists' major bases.

The news of the abductions came out only days later, after residents who fled the village arrived in the state capital Maiduguri late yesterday.

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