The local mayor in Niger Republic has raised alarm that suspected Boko
Haram gunmen kidnapped 15 girls overnight in a village near Toumour on
Saturday. Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of the town in Niger’s Diffa
region near the border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed
men seized the girls in a village about nine kilometres from the town
centre. He also added that on Thursday suspected Boko Haram fighters
killed eight people working at French drilling company Foraco’s water
well site in Toumour. Boko Haram violence has killed thousands of
civilians and forced millions to flee their homes in the large Lake Chad
basin region. Kidnapping of schoolgirls has been a Boko Haram horror
mark, since its fighters in 2014 kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in
Chibok, Borno State, in Nigeria. Breaking:Â Boko Haram kidnaps 15 girls in Niger Republic
The local mayor in Niger Republic has raised alarm that suspected Boko
Haram gunmen kidnapped 15 girls overnight in a village near Toumour on
Saturday. Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of the town in Niger’s Diffa
region near the border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed
men seized the girls in a village about nine kilometres from the town
centre. He also added that on Thursday suspected Boko Haram fighters
killed eight people working at French drilling company Foraco’s water
well site in Toumour. Boko Haram violence has killed thousands of
civilians and forced millions to flee their homes in the large Lake Chad
basin region. Kidnapping of schoolgirls has been a Boko Haram horror
mark, since its fighters in 2014 kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in
Chibok, Borno State, in Nigeria. 
