Breaking News: Boko Haram Kidnaps More 8 Girls From Gwoza Village Borno State

                      Fear pervades Nigerian city at heart of Islamist insurgency by M.J. Smith  Female student stands in a burnt classroom at Maiduguri Experimental School, a private nursery, primary and secondary school burnt by the Islamist group Boko Haram to keep children away from school in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria  on May 12, 2012. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/GettyImages  
                             

Islamist extremists known as Boko Haram terrorists have kidnapped eight girls, aged 12 to 15, from Gwoza village in northeastern Nigeria, Borno state.


The group’s raid of the village comes a day after they claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of more than 200 Nigerian school girls from Chibok  in April. According to Nigeria police, while some of the girls were able to escape, 276 remain captured.
‘’In the video, Shekau ranted against democracy in addition to calling for Western education to end. Boko Haram, loosely translates to “Western education is forbidden” from the local Hausa language.
They took away much material belongings, including foodstuff.
The mass abduction has sparked outrage and protests across the world, with the Goodluck Jonathan administration coming under increasing pressure to do something serious to rescue the innocent girls.   

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