{"id":6718,"date":"2018-11-26T06:34:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6718-armed-men-kidnap-15-girls-in-se-niger\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T06:34:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:34:19","slug":"armed-men-kidnap-15-girls-in-se-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6718-armed-men-kidnap-15-girls-in-se-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed men kidnap 15 girls in SE Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday.<\/h4>\n<h4>Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of Toumour in Niger\u2019s Diffa region near the border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed men seized the girls in a village about 9 km (6 miles) from the town center.<\/h4>\n<h4>The attack is believed to be carried out by Boko Haram terrorist organization, who has carried out similar terrorist attacks in Nigeria.<\/h4>\n<h4>On Thursday suspected Boko Haram terrorists killed eight people working at French drilling company Foraco\u2019s water well site in Toumour.<\/h4>\n<h4>Boko Haram has been waging an insurrection in northeast Nigeria since 2009. It has launched repeated attacks into neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.<\/h4>\n<h4>The violence has killed thousands of civilians and forced millions to flee their homes in the large Lake Chad basin region.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday. \u00a0 Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday. 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