An armed group has posted video on Facebook and WhatsApp appearing to show approximately 600 women, children, and older people held captive in a wooded area, roughly two days after gunmen struck five villages in Nigeria's Niger State. The footage, first reported by Reuters, provided the first visual evidence of the fate of those seized during Friday prayers at Kpenya Mosque in Borgu Local Government Area on 21 August, significantly revising the scale of an abduction that police had earlier put at "more than 100."
Armed group's video shows 600 held after Niger State mosque attack
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