Boko Haram abducts loggers

Kano – Boko Haram jihadists abducted around 50 loggers near the Nigerian town of Gamboru close to the border with Cameroon, civilian militia and residents told AFP yesterday.

The hostages, who are mostly from a camp for people displaced by jihadist violence, were on Saturday rounded up by fighters loyal to factional leader Abubakar Shekau while collecting wood at Bulakesa village, 25km from Gamboru in Borno state. –