Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, unsuccessfully attempting to kidnap girls at a boarding school there.<\/p>\n
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Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, unsuccessfully attempting to kidnap girls at a boarding school there.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses said on Monday that a convoy of pickup trucks belonging to Boko Haram militants descended on Dapchi Village in the Bursari area of Yobe State around 6 pm (1700 GMT).<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they stormed the village, they began shooting and setting off explosives,\u201d said resident Sheriff Aisami. \u201cThis drew the attention of the girls in the Girls Science Secondary School, so the girls and the teachers were able to escape before the attackers got into the school.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unable to kidnap the girls, the Boko Haram fighters looted the school before fleeing.<\/p>\n
It was not clear whether the violence caused any casualties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, the attack was meant to abduct school girls, but luckily they found none of the girls as they were taken away by teachers before they (the militants) arrived,\u201d said a member of a local civilian militia battling the extremists.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram notoriously kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in April 2014.<\/p>\n
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