Eight teenage girls were abducted by Islamist extremist sect Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, online newspaper Sahara Reporters reported Tuesday.
The insurgents kidnapped the girls in the early hours of Tuesday morning from the village of Waranbe village in the Gwoza local government area in Borno State. They reportedly still control the roads leading to the village.
The attack comes three weeks after Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sinful,” abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from a boarding school in Chibok, Borno State.
Boko Haram also attacked various police and army checkpoints in Gamboru Ngala and Shanni in Borno, near Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, according to the report.
In the same night, suspected Boko Haram gunmen raided a private school near Nigeria’s capital Abuja, where two bomb blasts killed a dozen people last week.
The attackers looted the Vine International Academy in the satellite town of Nyanya, stealing one of the school’s buses, witnesses told dpa.
None of the students were harmed.
“No school kid was kidnapped in the Nyanya area of Abuja this morning,” said police spokesman Frank Mba, adding that investigations were under way.