They were kidnapped close to the northeastern Nigerian town of Gamboru near the outskirt with Cameroon.
As per the Agence France Presse, AFP, this improvement was made known by regular citizen civilian army and inhabitants on Thursday.
The prisoners who are for the most part from a camp for individuals dislodged by jihadist viciousness were on Saturday gathered together by warriors faithful to factional pioneer Abubakar Shekau while gathering wood at Bulakesa town, 25 kilometers (15 miles) from Gamboru in Borno state.
"The men were gathered together and removed by Boko Haram extremists and nothing has been gotten notification from them," local army pioneer Umar Kachalla said.
"Two of the lumberjacks got away and returned home and broke the news.
"We don't have an exact number of those taken, however, for the most part, the lumberjacks move in a gathering of in excess of 50 men," Kachalla said.
The Lumberjacks were urged to wander profound into the shrub to gather kindling by an ongoing military task that drove the jihadists out of the territory, another local army Shehu Mada said.
A month ago troops ousted the aggressors from the adjacent town of Wulgo and encompassing territories following relentless assaults on lumberjacks.
"The general suspicion was that the radicals had left the zone just to all of a sudden show up and surround the lumberjacks," Mada said.
A portion of the lumberjacks joined the group to gather metals from the shells of vehicles decimated in the military hostile against the contenders, he said.
"We trust the quantity of the those snatched surpasses 50," said Gamboru inhabitant Babagana Musa.
The story was ease back to rise because of constrained interchanges with Gamboru inhabitants.
The region has for quite a while been without telecom offices following the decimation of telecom poles in Boko Haram assaults, constraining inhabitants to depend on Cameroon cell phone systems.
Gamboru lumberjacks have endured rehashed Boko Haram assaults and kidnappings particularly around Wulgo woods which was a known Boko Haram den.
In April Boko Haram activists gunned down 18 lumberjacks at the edge of Wulgo backwoods, 15 kilometers from Gamboru while coming back from gathering wood.
In January somewhere around 31 lumberjacks disappeared and were accepted to have been kidnapped by the jihadists close Wulgo, where 10 lumberjacks were murdered two weeks sooner.
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