Another 87 people abducted in Nigeria. No hostages have been rescued or those behind the attack arrested.
Armed criminal groups are suspected to be behind the wave of kidnappings in Kaduna. Almost exactly ten years ago, the abduction of 276 schoolgirls by the Islamist militia Boko Haram in Chibok in the northeastern state of Borno caused worldwide horror. In the north and center of Africa's most populous country with more than 220 million inhabitants, both criminal gangs and Islamist terrorist groups repeatedly kidnap people.