Nigeria's Boko Haram 'Jihadists' Kidnaps Another 60 Females Along With Their Children — Nigeria's Bumbling, Corrupt Military Can't Cope

Abubakar Shekau, alleged leader of Boko Haram. (Screen capture from YouTube
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By Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul
Extremists have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys in weekend attacks on villages in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said Tuesday, another sign of the Nigerian military's failure to curb an Islamic uprising.

Some married women were taken along with their children who range in age from three to 15, said witnesses.

A local official confirmed the abductions but security forces denied them. Nigeria's government and military have been widely criticized for their slow response to the abductions of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped April 15.

There was no way to safely and independently confirm the report from Kummabza, 150 kilometers (95 miles) from Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and headquarters of a military state of emergency that has failed to curtail near-daily attacks by Boko Haram fighters.

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