Boko Haram abducts 36 people in Nigeria

Nine female traders and twenty-seven other young men were abducted Wednesday by suspected Boko Haram members, Nigerian Daily Post reported. The insurgents were said to have attacked two lorries carrying orange, a pick up van carrying firewood and a car conveying six passengers in Maiduguri, in Borno state. The Military authorities in Borno State also said that the Boko Haram sect has resorted to forcefully conscripting young men into the group following the deadly attacks by troops in the last few days at the Sambisa forest and other camps, where the sect lost hundreds of their fighters. Spokesman of the 7 Division Nigerian Army, Col Muhammadu Dole said the sect members were now moving around villages to forcefully recruit members to replace dead ones.