Boko Haram Invades Nigeria’s Kubrrivu, Kills 10, Abducts 13
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The Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group invaded a village in Nigeria, killing at least ten people and abducting 13 others before burning down the entire village.
The terrorists riding on motorcycles opened fire on residents in Kubrrivu village near the northeast town of Chibok at dawn on Saturday, locals said Sunday.
The militants attacked the village as its residents were sleeping, they burnt down the whole village after looting food supplies and livestock and taking away women and children.
A community elder said seven women, five boys and a girl were abducted by the violent group which pledged allegiance to Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] in the Middle East.
The terrorist group first raided the village in 2014, during which the villagers were forced to flee. The residents returned and reconstructed their homes one year later after Nigerian troops retook swathes of territory from the terrorists.
Boko Haram has been active in Nigeria since 2002, but its attacks had not been significant until 2010, when the gunmen managed to free 700 inmates from a prison in Bauchi and raid a mosque in Maiduguri.
In April, Boko Haram released a video purportedly showing the girls abducted from Chibok in 2014. In the footage, one of the militants claimed that some of the girls were still alive and the others had been killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian air force. He said a number of the girls, "about 40 of them", had also been married to the militants.
Last year, Amnesty International said at least 2,000 women and girls had been kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria since the beginning of 2014, and many of them forced into slavery or combat.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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