60 women abducted in Adamawa State by Boko haram

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Despite the purported ceasefire, Sixty women were said to have been  reportedly abducted by suspected members of the deadly Boko Haram sect at Waga Mangoro and Garta villages, both in  Adamawa State during a fresh attack. 
PUNCH reports that some of the fleeing residents from the area, who called journalists in Yola on the telephone lamented that scores of insurgents riding motorcycles and driving vans had invaded their towns. That they were able to sneak out of the captured towns on Tuesday, but that their villages were ravaged on Saturday.

One of those that was about to flee the area, Tizhe Kwada told journalists that the area had been under the control of the insurgents for about two months now. Kwada claimed that the insurgents cordoned off the entire town and went from one house to another in Garta in search of young women who they took in their vans to an unknown destination.
He said:
“The insurgents are still in the area. And they have slaughtered many men in Garta and abducted many young women. We also heard from residents of Wagga that they killed two men and took 40 women away from there.”


A community leader from Michika, a neighbouring town to the two attacked towns, Emmanuel Kwache, while confirming the incident to journalists in Yola on Wednesday said:
“I got the information from villagers in the area that the rampage was still in progress.”


As of the time of filing the story, Punch says both the military and security agencies could not be reached for confirmation. 

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