The Wireless

Nigerian gunmen kidnap more girls

09:22 am on 7 May 2014

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped eight more girls from a remote village in northeastern Nigeria, Radio New Zealand reports.

The abduction of the girls, aged 12 to 15, follows the kidnapping of more than 200 other schoolgirls by the militant group last month, whom it has threatened to sell into slavery.

A police source, who asked not to be identified, said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatened in a video released to the media on Monday to sell the girls abducted from a secondary school on 14 April "on the market".

The United Nations warned Boko Haram that if they carried out their leader's threat to sell the girls, they would forever be liable to prosecution for war crimes, even decades after the event.