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Taken

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27 March 2015

REUTERS

Taken: a church that residents of the north-eastern Nigerian town of Damasak say was burned by Boko Haram, Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday. Residents said that the militants kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the town, which had been freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad.

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