Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday.
Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of Toumour in Niger’s Diffa region near the
border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed men seized the
girls in a village about 9 km (6 miles) from the town center.
On Thursday suspected Boko Haram fighters killed eight people working at
French drilling company Foraco’s water well site in Toumour.
Boko Haram has been waging an insurrection since 2009 aimed at
establishing an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria. It has launched
repeated attacks into neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
The violence has killed thousands of civilians and forced millions to flee their homes in the large Lake Chad basin region
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