KABUL: (Middle East Press) Nearly five hundred children have been missing in the northeastern Nigerian town which recently were recaptured from Boko Haram terrorists, reports say.
Local sources in the town of Damasak in Borno state say children aged 11 and younger were taken by the Takfiri militants as they fled the area.
With the help of soldiers from Chad and Niger, Nigerian forces liberated the town earlier this month. Damasak had been under the control of militants for four months.
Officials in Borno state say the terrorists have been known to place young abducted children in schools under their supervision while males between the ages of 16 and 25 are trained and used to carry out the group’s heinous crimes.
The Takfiri group, which has been wreaking havoc in Nigeria for the past six years, recently pledged allegiance to the ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria.
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