Estimated numbers of about 20 Fulani women were reportedly abducted on Thursday by gunmen who were believed to be the Boko Haram members from a nomad settlement near Chibok town, where over 300 schoolgirls were abducted on the 14th of April 2014. Security sources and local residents have said that this gunmen invaded a nomad settlement known as Garkin Fulani at about 12 noon and compelled the women at gunpoint to all enter their vehicles, in which they then drove off with them to a destination still yet to be unknown. According to the members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria and local hunters deployed to the Chibok area to guard schools in this area, the gunmen arrived Garkin Fulani when the men of the community were not around and abducted the women. “We got the information that they went there and took away the women at the time none of the males were there. The three young men they met there couldn't have been of help to those women, as the gunmen also ordered the three of them to enter the Hilux vans and took all of them away,” One of the vigilante officials added, Alhaji Tar, who was said to have returned to Maiduguri from Chibok yesterday. “We all tried to go after them when the news got to us about three hours later, but the vehicles we have could not go far and the report came to us a little bit late,” he added. Top security officers who craved anonymity, because his job does not include speaking directly to the press confirmed to the incident, but he said, “The details are still sketchy for us to make any serious statement on it. We are still investigating as to ascertain its veracity.”
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