Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said on Tuesday.
The abduction of the girls, aged 12 to 15, follows the kidnapping of more than 200 other schoolgirls by the Islamist militant group last month.
Lazarus Musa, a resident of the village of Warabe, told Reuters that armed men had opened fire during the raid.
"They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army colour. They started shooting in our village," Musa said by telephone from the village in the hilly Gwoza area, Boko Haram's main base.
A police source, who could not be named, said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatened in a video released to the media on Monday to sell the girls abducted from a secondary school on April 14 "on the market."
A woman holds a sign during a protest demanding the release of abducted secondary school girls from the remote village of Chibok, in Lagos Monday. Nigeria's police have said more than 300 girls were abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago. Of that number, 276 remain in captivity and 53 escaped. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)
The kidnappings by the Islamists, who say they are fighting for an Islamic state in Nigeria, have shocked a country long inured to the violence around the northeast.
"Many people tried to run behind the mountain but when they heard gun shots, they came back," Musa said. "The Boko Haram men were entering houses, ordering people out of their houses."
Boko Haram, the main security threat to Africa's leading energy producer, is growing bolder and appears better armed than ever. April's mass kidnapping occurred on the day a bomb blast, also claimed by Boko Haram, killed 75 people on the edge of Abuja, the first attack on the capital in two years.
Nigeria's First Lady Patience Goodluck Jonathan, shown in 2012, accused protest leaders of fabricating the abductions of 276 schoolgirls to give Nigeria's government and her husband "a bad name," one of the protest leaders says. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)
Another bomb in roughly the same place killed 19 people last week, all events that have embarrassed the government before a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting on Africa in Abuja from May 7-9.
The military's inability to find the girls in three weeks, has led to protests in the northeast, Abuja and Lagos, the commercial capital. More are expected on Tuesday in Abuja, just as delegates will be collecting their badges to allow them entry to the hotel where the forum will take place.
Earlier, protest leaders in Nigeria who were arrested after demonstrating over the abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls were released from a police station in Abuja.
Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town said State Security Service agents drove her and protest leader Naomi Mutah Nyadar to a police station on Monday after an all-night meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja, the capital.
She said police immediately released her, but that Nyadar was kept in detention.
A legal adviser for the women said later on Monday that Nyadar had been released, after being held for "close to seven hours without at least even allowing her opportunity of meeting with her lawyer, no legal representation."
The adviser, Femi Adedeji, added: "It's a terrible thing for citizens protesting peacefully to be arrested, without giving cogent reason for such arrest. And such person detained for close to seven hours without at least even allowing her opportunity of meeting with her lawyer, no legal representation. We just found out that she has been released, after some period of time."
Ndirpaya said that President Goodluck Jonathan's wife, Patience Jonathan, had ordered the arrests of two protest leaders, accused them of belonging to Boko Haram and expressed doubts there was any kidnapping.
It was unclear what authority Patience Jonathan would have to give such orders, since there is no office of first lady in the Nigerian constitution.
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