Reports: 8 More Girls Abducted in Nigeria
Suspected militants have kidnapped eight girls in northeast Nigeria, according to police and residents, Reuters reports.
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The BBC reports that the kidnapping took place on Sunday in the village of Warabe in Borno state.
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The abductors are suspected of being part of Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group that claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass kidnapping of more than 300 girls in Chibok, Nigeria, a town also located in northeast part of the country. There are 276 girls still missing from that abduction.
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