Ten women who had been at a rice plantation during an attack in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, are still missing. The 10 missing women worked at the Kwashabe rice farm. Boko Haram is being blamed for the attack.

Boko Haram has reportedly increasingly targeted loggers, herders and fishermen, accusing them of spying and passing information to the military and the local militia. The conflict has displaced around two million people since 2009, with the violence having spread into neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Amnesty International said its findings showed that of the 43 farmers killed, 16 were Internally Displaced Persons who had been residing at the Farm Centre IDP Camp. A militia leader Babakura Kolo, who helped the survivors said, ‘’We have recovered 43 dead bodies, all of them slaughtered, along with six others with serious injuries.” The victims were laborers from Sokoto state in northwestern Nigeria, roughly 1000 kilometers away.

All Africa reports that the human rights organization called on the group to end it’s campaign of violent and unlawful killings of civilians, saying, “Boko Haram and other armed groups must renounce their unlawful and vicious campaign of violence against civilians.” It added that it was the duty of the Nigerian government to protect lives and properties, and that those responsible for the killings should be held accountable.

Meanwhile, according to a report by the United Nations, the number of those dead has risen to at least 110 people. The UN report did not mention Boko Haram as the perpetrators.

The missing women, meanwhile, are presumed to have been kidnapped.

Umm Muhammed Umar