Boko Haram Abducts More Than 20 Girls In Lassa, Borno State

Insurgents belonging to the dreaded Islamist group Boko Haram last Wednesday abducted more than 20 women, most of them young girls, in Lassa, Borno State. They abducted more than 20 girls from the town and killed many people, mostly old men and women. The insurgents attacked the town last Wednesday in a wave of hundreds of fighters with a variety of heavy weaponry, including tanks and explosives. They were finally able to overwhelm the local opposition and capture the town. “They burnt almost half of the town before they left. Those who were lucky fled, but they massacred aged ones and younger men they could catch, the town fell to the insurgents because the residents’ appeals to security agencies to deploy more troops and to step up land and air operations were ignored. “That’s why the town is now in the hands of Boko Haram.