BOKO HARAM ABDUCTS 60 WOMEN IN ADAMAWA

  60 women were reportedly abducted by suspected members of the deadly Boko Haram sect at Waga Mangoro and Garta villages,both in troubled Adamawa State during a fresh attack. 40 of the women were said to have been abducted in Waga Mangoro and the other 20 were forcefully taken away from Garta. Some of the fleeing residents from the area who called journalists in Yola on the telephone lamented that scores of of insurgents riding motorcycles and driving vans had invaded their towns. The fleeing residents while lamenting the capture of the two towns said they were able to sneak out of the captured towns on Tuesday,but disclosed that their villages were ravaged on Saturday. One of those who was able to flee the area, Tizhe Kwada told journalists that the area had had been under the control of insurgentd for about 2 months now.

SOURCE: PUNCH