Tuesday 06 May 2014 15.43 Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls aged 12 to 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in northeast Nigeria overnight, police and residents said this afternoon.
"They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army colour.
"They started shooting in our village," said Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened.
A police source, who could not be named, said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food.
The Islamist rebels are still holding more than 200 girls they abducted from a secondary school on 14 April.
The United States earlier said it considered that kidnapping to be an "outrage".
White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama has been briefed on the kidnapping by his national security team.
Six US senators have introduced a resolution supporting the Nigerian people and calling for the immediate release and return of the girls.
"We and our African allies should do everything to help the Nigerian government rescue innocent girls and return them to their families," Senator Dick Durbin, one of the resolution's sponsors, said in a tweet.
He called the Boko Haram kidnapping "an affront to the civilised world".
The US fears many of the schoolgirls have been smuggled abroad.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf shared the US assessment after local officials in northeastern Nigeria said the girls had likely been taken to nearby Chad or Cameroon.
Fifty-three of the girls managed to escape from the militants but 223 were still being held, Nigerian state police said on Friday.
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for taking the girls from school, and its leader Abubakar Shekau declared his plan to sell them as slaves in a video released yesterday.
The US State Department believes the video is authentic and is looking at the best ways to help in the search.
"We have many indications many of them have likely been moved out of the country to neighbouring countries," Ms Harf said.
"We will continue working with" the Nigerian authorities, she said, refusing to outline specific US help being provided in this case.
In general, the US has been providing Nigeria with "counter-terrorism assistance" in the form of intelligence sharing as well as developing their forensics services, she said.
A senior State Department official, Sarah Sewell, is on her way to Nigeria and will meet senior officials in the coming days to discuss "this despicable incident," Ms Harf said.
British Foreign Minister William Hague offered to help Nigeria secure the release the schoolgirls.
"We are offering practical help," Mr Hague told reporters as he arrived for a Council of Europe meeting in Vienna.
"What has happened here... the actions of Boko Haram to use girls as the spoils of war, the spoils of terrorism, is disgusting. It is immoral," he said.
He said he did not want to discuss the details of what help Britain was offering.
Egypt's prestigious Islamic institute Al-Azhar, which runs the main Sunni Islamic university in the region, said harming the girls "completely contradicts the teachings of Islam and its tolerant principles."
The institute has called "for the immediate release" of the girls.
US actress Angelina Jolie, a UN Special Envoy, has also condemned the kidnapping as "unthinkable cruelty and evil."
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