Gunmen kidnap 100 in northeast village, Gumskiri

Gunmen, believed to be members of Nigeria terrorist group, Boko Haram, raided Gumskiri Village in Maiduguri, kidnapped more than 100 women and children and killed 35 people.

According to a resident of the village, who was quoted in a Reuters’ report on Thursday, the incident happened on Sunday in the remote northeast village.

News from remote parts of Nigeria that are cut off from mobile communications sometimes takes days to travel.

“They gathered the people, shot dead over 30 people and took away more than 100 women and children in two open top trucks,” Maina Chibok, who did not witness the attack but is from Gumskiri and visited family there shortly afterwards.

Although no one has claimed it yet, the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which in a similar assault abducted more than 200 women in April from a secondary school in Chibok, very near this latest attack on the Cameroon border.

“They also burned down a government medical center, houses and shops,” Chibook said.

A security source confirmed that more than 100 had been abducted and said 35 people had been killed, including the district head.