More attacks from Boko Haram as kidnap response grows

Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said today as an international effort got under way to rescue 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants.

News of the attack came amid growing condemnation by Muslims in Nigeria and abroad, and by some Islamic militants online, against the Boko Haram terrorist network and its acts.