In yet another instance, the youths, widely called Shilla Boys, abducted a minor, except that the police intervened quickly enough in this instance to thwart whatever the boys intended against the minor.
“The Shila Boys immediately began to shout thief, thief, apparently to get a gathering crowd to their side,” Lydia said, adding that the attackers achieved their intent as they and the crowd descended on Emmanuel even as he continued to shout that he was not a thief.” At the Wauro-jabbe community in the same Jimeta, the Shilla Boys abducted a minor, one Kumaga Yohanna, and they were on their way to the bush with him when they encountered a combined team of police and vigilante who gave the armed youths a chase and succeeded in rescuing the minor.
A security source told our correspondent that the boys had earlier carried out a mass attack in a street in Bachure where they injured many people, and that they had been particularly after the old woman’s son but that when they could not get the son, they reached for the old woman and descended on her.
Hmmm