According to some locals and security sources in Bornu state, at least 60 women and girls have been reportedly abducted in a Borno village by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram.
The abduction, which was said to have been carried out on Saturday, supposedly took place in a village called Kummabza, a farming community not more than 25km away from Lassa town in Askira-Uba local government area of Borno State. But it was not made public until Monday when members of the local vigilante broke the news to journalists in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.