The phrase "abducted many" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the act of kidnapping or taking away a large number of people, often in a dramatic or criminal sense.
Example: "The news reported that the mysterious group had abducted many from the nearby village during the night."
Alternatives: "kidnapped numerous" or "taken many".
In 1996 after Kony's rebels attacked Aboke girl's school and abducted many girls, the then deputy head rallied around the world and made calls for peace.
Some campaigners believe North Korea abducted many more Japanese nationals who are not included on the official list of those missing.
While he was there, Kim Jong Il confessed that his regime had abducted many Japanese over the years, and that only five of them were still alive a quarter-century later.
Ship after ship of ill-equipped migrants — many of them abducted, many of them children — went out, each vessel intended to fulfill some new harebrained scheme: winemaking, silk-making, glassmaking.
Fear of North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship, and anger over revelations that North Korea had abducted many Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s, have been especially useful to Mr Koizumi.In some ways, therefore, the DPJ's electoral challenge offered the first good test of voters' appetite for freeing the economy.
According to a Chadian news site, insurgents "abducted many woman and children" as they fled Saturday's fighting, looting and setting fire to villages along the way.
US Special Forces are in the country to help local forces track down the Lord's Resistance Army, the brutal rebel group responsible for killing thousands of civilians across four African nations and for abducting many children as soldiers and sex slaves.
They should come to their aid and reintegrate them and show them love". So many girls like Zara have been abducted, so many others are still being held.
The men arrived in three pickup trucks, Saeed said, and abducted as many as 50 of the company's employees.
Boko Haram also committed mass abductions of other women and girls, and there are estimates that the group has abducted as many as 10,000 boys.
Lee appeared in a separate interview with the channel on Monday in which he claimed he wasn't abducted, as many suspected, but had sneaked illegally into the mainland to help authorities with an investigation.
