from the northern town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops
from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday.
There was no immediate official confirmation of the figure, but the
Islamist group has previously carried out mass kidnappings. Boko
Haram's abduction last April of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the region
stirred international outrage and drew global attention to the group's
six-year insurgency
"They took 506 young women and children (in Damasak). They killed
about 50 of them before leaving," a trader called Souleymane Ali told
Reuters in the town. "We don't know if they killed others after
leaving, but they took the rest with them."
--Vanguard
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