BY USMAN MOHAMMED, NOVEMBER 23, 2025, 6:08
At least 13 people were abducted on Saturday while working on a communal farm in Huyim, a village under Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.
Residents said the victims were participating in a long-standing community tradition in which groups gather to assist one another during farming activities.
The victims, all females, were reportedly harvesting crops when armed men believed to be Boko Haram insurgents stormed the area and abducted them. Twelve of the victims were reportedly between the ages of 15 to 20 with one above 20.
However, the elderly woman managed to escape and returned home safely. She was helping security with intelligence.
The Deputy Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Abdullahi Askira, confirmed the abduction to Daily Trust saying the victims were abducted on their fields in Mussa district.
Abdullahi, who represents Askira-Uba constituency, said the 13 abductees who were between the ages of 15 and 20 years went to their farmland in Mussa farming area to harvest their crops when the assailants took them away.
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