Boko Haram Islamists Kidnap Boys From Village

Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men from a village in northeast Nigeria, say witnesses.

Nearly 100 people are missing after militants raided the Doron Baga village, loading victims into trucks before driving them off.

Several witnesses who fled the raid in the sandy fishing village, near the shores of Lake Chad, said kidnappers had burned several houses.

The villagers said six older men were also killed in Sunday's raid.

The latest raid follows the kidnapping of 200 schoolgirls from Chibok

"They left no men or boys in the place; only young children, girls and women," said Halima Adamu.

"They were shouting 'Allah Akbar' (God is greatest), shooting sporadically. There was confusion everywhere.

"They started parking our men and boys into their vehicles, threatening to shoot whoever disobey them. Everybody was scared."

The kidnappings come four months after Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok.

Boko Haram is fighting to reinstate a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria.

The organisation is seen as the number one security threat to Africa's top economy and oil producer.

It has dramatically increased attacks on civilians in the past year, and the once-grassroots movement has lost popular support as it gets more blood thirsty.

Its solution - kidnapping boys and forcing them to fight and abducting girls as sex slaves - is a chilling echo of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

The LRA operated in the same way in Uganda, South Sudan and central Africa for decades.

The military did not respond to a request for comment. A security source said they were aware of the incident but were still investigating the details.

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