Borno, Nigeria, 24 Jun - (ANA) - More than 60 women and children have been abducted in northern Nigeria by suspected militant Islamists, residents and officials say. The abductions are said to have taken place during a series of raids over the past week on villages in Borno state. Dozens of people were killed in the attacks, and people have been fleeing the villages, a BBC reporter says. The Islamist group Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 girls it captured in Borno's Chibok town on 14 April. Boko Haram is demanding the release of its fighters and their relatives, in exchange for the girls. The government has rejected this. The abductions took place in the remote Damboa area of Borno State. Kummabza was just one of the villages targeted, he says. A senior officer in the Damboa local authority told AFP news agency that more than 60 people had been "hijacked and forcefully taken away". "The village [Kummabza] was also destroyed," the unnamed officer is quoted as saying. He said some of the survivors, including women and children, fled on foot to Lassa, about 25km (16 miles) away. "Others went to Gulak in Adamawa state, where they are now taking refuge," the officer is quoted as saying. (ANA)

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