(ANSA) - Rome, June 24 - Islamist militants from Boko Haram
have kidnapped another 60 women and girls, plus 31 boys in
northeast Nigeria, witnesses told media on Tuesday.
Some 30 people were killed in an attack during their
abduction, AFP reported, which occurred Saturday in the village
of Kummabza, 150 km from Maidaguri, the capital of the state of
Borno.
Earlier this month the radical group killed between 400 and
500 people in the same village.
Boko Haram aims to create an Islamic state in northern
Nigeria.
It sparked international indignation by abducting some 300
school-age girls in April.
Boko Haram abducts 60 more women and girls, 31 boys
Radicals intensifying efforts to create Islamist state