ABUJA: Islamic State-allied Boko Haram jihadists have killed some other kidnapped feminine Red Cross employee in northeast Nigeria, the company stated on Tuesday, a month after militants murdered one of her colleagues. Three feminine health workers were kidnapped on March 1 right through a Boko Haram raid at the far off town of Rann, in Borno state, that killed three other help workers and eight Nigerian infantrymen.
Two of the kidnapped ladies, Hauwa Liman and Saifura Khorsa, worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whilst the third, Alice Loksha, worked for the UN kids's company, UNICEF.
The ICRC stated on Tuesday it had won information Liman had been killed by means of her captors, with out giving additional main points. The government had additionally earlier announced news of the second killing.
"The news of Hauwa's death has broken our hearts," ICRC's Regional Director for Africa, Patricia Danzi stated in a statement.
"We appealed for mercy and an end to such senseless murders. How can it be that two female health care workers were killed back-to-back?"
There had been no news of the trio till remaining month when the ICRC stated it had won pictures of Khorsa's killing from the IS-backed Boko Haram faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
ISWAP then threatened to kill Liman and Loksha, as well as a 15-year-old Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu who was kidnapped from town of Dapchi, in Yobe state, in February.
The ICRC remaining weekend appealed for the captives' free up and for the jihadists to turn mercy, as they were "doing nothing but helping communities" within the conflict-riven area.
But Nigeria's Information Minister Lai Mohammed earlier announced the newest demise as a deadline expired and stated the federal government was "shocked and saddened" at the killing, calling it "dastardly, inhuman and ungodly".
He didn't initially identify the sufferer but later added in a tweet that he "commiserated with the family of Hauwa Liman".
Mohammed stated: "It may be very unlucky that it has come to this. Before and after the deadline issued by means of her abductors, the government did the entirety any responsible government must do to save lots of the help employee.
"As now we have been doing since these younger ladies were abducted, we stored the line of negotiations open right through. In all of the negotiations, we acted in the most efficient hobby of the ladies and the rustic as an entire."
He stated officials persevered to work to free the others from captivity.
More than 27,000 other people have been killed in northeast Nigeria because the Boko Haram insurgency started in 2009, whilst just about two million others remain homeless because of the conflict.
Nigeria's military and government maintain the Islamist rebels are weakened to the point of defeat but fighters from the IS-backed faction have conducted repeated raids on military bases in fresh months.
Two of the kidnapped ladies, Hauwa Liman and Saifura Khorsa, worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whilst the third, Alice Loksha, worked for the UN kids's company, UNICEF.
The ICRC stated on Tuesday it had won information Liman had been killed by means of her captors, with out giving additional main points. The government had additionally earlier announced news of the second killing.
"The news of Hauwa's death has broken our hearts," ICRC's Regional Director for Africa, Patricia Danzi stated in a statement.
"We appealed for mercy and an end to such senseless murders. How can it be that two female health care workers were killed back-to-back?"
There had been no news of the trio till remaining month when the ICRC stated it had won pictures of Khorsa's killing from the IS-backed Boko Haram faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
ISWAP then threatened to kill Liman and Loksha, as well as a 15-year-old Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu who was kidnapped from town of Dapchi, in Yobe state, in February.
The ICRC remaining weekend appealed for the captives' free up and for the jihadists to turn mercy, as they were "doing nothing but helping communities" within the conflict-riven area.
But Nigeria's Information Minister Lai Mohammed earlier announced the newest demise as a deadline expired and stated the federal government was "shocked and saddened" at the killing, calling it "dastardly, inhuman and ungodly".
He didn't initially identify the sufferer but later added in a tweet that he "commiserated with the family of Hauwa Liman".
Mohammed stated: "It may be very unlucky that it has come to this. Before and after the deadline issued by means of her abductors, the government did the entirety any responsible government must do to save lots of the help employee.
"As now we have been doing since these younger ladies were abducted, we stored the line of negotiations open right through. In all of the negotiations, we acted in the most efficient hobby of the ladies and the rustic as an entire."
He stated officials persevered to work to free the others from captivity.
More than 27,000 other people have been killed in northeast Nigeria because the Boko Haram insurgency started in 2009, whilst just about two million others remain homeless because of the conflict.
Nigeria's military and government maintain the Islamist rebels are weakened to the point of defeat but fighters from the IS-backed faction have conducted repeated raids on military bases in fresh months.
Boko Haram kills second kidnapped aid worker in Nigeria: Red Cross
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