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In an attack that gained worldwide attention last year, Boko Haram fighters kidnapped around 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, in north-eastern Nigeria.

"Children get kidnapped around here all the time," Mrs. Ali said.

This weekend the group kidnapped around 80 people during a raid into neighbouring Cameroon; 20 people have since reportedly been freed.

Suspected Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria have kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others in a cross-border attack in Cameroon.

"Fifteen to 20 armed men in three pickup trucks and wearing security uniforms kidnapped around 35 passengers," Sarfaraz Bugti, Baluchistan's home minister, told Reuters.

In one particular incident in March 2015, militants of the group allegedly kidnapped around 500 women and children from a town in northeast Nigeria, killing some as the group fled, according to Reuters.

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Gregory Bangs, the kidnap-and-ransom manager for Chubb Group, an American insurance company, said that patterns of kidnapping around the world are "almost inverse" to that of the global economy.

He remembered a story about some Germans who had been kidnapped somewhere around here and held hostage for a week.

Tattooed hero Garcia Hotspur, here to rescue kidnapped girlfriend Paula, carries around a talking skull-cum-weapon named Johnson who transforms into a pistol named Boner, while obstructive tangles of brambles are referred to as "demons' pubes".

I have been kidnapped, blindfolded, driven around for hours, then dropped off home.

Then they tied us together with the other people they'd kidnapped with ropes around the waist.

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