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| Nigeria's Boko Haram 'seizes women' in Borno | Nigeria's Boko Haram 'seizes women' in Borno |
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| More than 60 women and children have been abducted in northern Nigeria by suspected militant Islamists, residents and officials say. | More than 60 women and children have been abducted in northern Nigeria by suspected militant Islamists, residents and officials say. |
| The abductions are said to have taken place during a series of raids over the past week on villages in Borno state. | The abductions are said to have taken place during a series of raids over the past week on villages in Borno state. |
| Dozens of people were killed in the attacks, and people have been fleeing the villages, a BBC reporter says. | Dozens of people were killed in the attacks, and people have been fleeing the villages, a BBC reporter says. |
| The Islamist group Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 girls it captured in Borno's Chibok town on 14 April. | The Islamist group Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 girls it captured in Borno's Chibok town on 14 April. |
| Boko Haram is demanding the release of its fighters and their relatives, in exchange for the girls. | |
| The government has rejected this. | |
| BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says the latest abductions do not come as a surprise. | |
| Many remote villages in north-eastern Nigeria are extremely insecure and when Boko Haram fighters attack, they often spend hours looting and killing, he says. | |
| The abductions took place in the remote Damboa area of Borno State. | |
| Kummabza was just one of the villages targeted, he says. | |
| A senior officer in the Damboa local authority told AFP news agency that more than 60 people had been "hijacked and forcefully taken away". | |
| "The village [Kummabza] was also destroyed," the unnamed officer is quoted as saying. | |
| He said some of the survivors, including women and children, fled on foot to Lassa, about 25km (16 miles) away. | |
| "Others went to Gulak in Adamawa state, where they are now taking refuge," the officer is quoted as saying. |