The Nigerian government Monday said that a female aid worker has been killed following the expiration of the deadline given by her abductors.
Hauwa Mohammed Liman was an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
“We are deeply pained by this killing, just like we were by the recent killing of the first aid worker,” minister of information Lai Mohammed said in a statement.
Mohammed said the government will keep the negotiations open and continue to work to free the innocent women who are still being held.
Liman, a midwife at an ICRC-supported hospital, was kidnapped along with two of her colleagues Alice Loksha, a nurse working with UNICEF, and Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa.
Khorsa, a midwife with ICRC was killed in September by the Islamic State for West African Province, a Boko Haram splinter group that is loyal to the Islamic State. The fate of Loksha is yet unknown.
The terror group, also holding a Dapchi girl, Leah Sharibu, said last month that Liman and Loksha would be killed within a period of time that is due on Monday.
More details later.
Boko Haram kills another aid worker
