BOKO HARAM ABDUCTS 1OO SCHOOLGIRLS IN BORNO

Less than 15 hours after four suicide bombers detonated Improvised Explosive Devices, killing 89 people in a busy motor park in Nyanya, a satellite community bordering the Federal Capital Territory and Nasarawa State, no fewer than 100 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, were on Monday night abducted by members of the outlawed militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

Parents told the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation that the girls, who are Senior Secondary Schools Examination candidates, were woken up at about 10pm in their hostel by the insurgents   and ordered into four waiting lorries.

A pupil, who did not wish to be named, was quoted as saying that  she managed to  escape after seeing  some of  her classmates jump out of the back of one of the lorries.

Our correspondent in Borno reported that the insurgents also killed an undisclosed number of people in the village, carted away food items and burnt some houses as well as vehicles.

It was learnt that some members of the special military force were among those killed by the terrorists, who were said to have had a field day.

SOURCE: PUNCH