Women reportedly kidnapped from nomadic settlement near Chibok town where hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted.
    
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the rebel group abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in April.

Alhaji Tar, a member of a vigilante group set up to resist Boko Haram's attacks, told the Associated Press news agency that the men arrived at noon on Thursday in the Garkin Fulani settlement and forced the women to enter their vehicles at gunpoint.

Tar said they drove away to an unknown location in the remote stretch of Borno state.

He said the group also took three young men who tried to stop the kidnapping.

"We tried to go after them when the news got to us about three hours later, but the vehicles we have could not go far, and the report came to us a little bit late," he said.

Al Jazeera was unable to independently confirm the abductions.

Almost 300 girls were snatched from Chibok, near the Cameroon border, on April 15. While 53 of the girls managed to escape, 223 girls remain missing. The abductions have sparked widespread protests around Nigeria and a global campaign calling for their rescue.