Islamic 明言する/公表する in Nigeria might soon kill health 労働者s, schoolgirl - ICRC

By Tom Miles and Felix Onuah

GENEVA/ABUJA, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Islamic 明言する/公表する in Nigeria might kill healthcare 労働者s it has held 人質 since March within 24 hours, the International 委員会 of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday, calling for mercy and 勧めるing Nigeria's 政府 to 介入する.

医療の 労働者s Hauwa Mohammed Liman and Alice Loksha were working in the town of Rann when they were kidnapped along with ICRC midwife Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa, who was killed in September, the ICRC said in a 声明.

The 武装した group was also 持つ/拘留するing a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, who was 誘拐するd in February from her school in the town of Dapchi, it said.

交戦的なs 連合した to Islamic 明言する/公表する said in a ビデオ 地位,任命するd online last month that they would kill their 人質s within a period of time that is 予定 to elapse on Monday.

"速度(を上げる) and 緊急 are 批判的な. A 最終期限 that could result in the 殺人,大当り of another healthcare 労働者 is いっそう少なく than 24 hours away," the ICRC said in a 声明, without giving その上の 詳細(に述べる)s on the 最終期限 or its 条件s.

"We 勧める you: spare and 解放(する) these women. They are a midwife, a nurse and a student. Like all those 誘拐するd, they are not part of any fight," Patricia Danzi, director of ICRC 操作/手術s in Africa, was 引用するd as 説 in the 声明.

The ICRC said the 交戦的なs recently 確認するd the 最終期限 to them. 需要・要求するs 存在 made in 交流 for the 解放(する) of their 人質s have not been 報告(する)/憶測d.

Two spokesmen for Nigerian 大統領 Muhammadu Buhari 拒絶する/低下するd to comment.

Last week a 政府 代表 led by the 大臣 of (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) travelled to the northeastern city of Maiduguri for 会談 with 親族s of the 人質s.

Liman was working as a midwife at an ICRC-supported hospital, while Loksha was a nurse working with UNICEF.

The Geneva-based ICRC, which often 作品 behind the scenes for 人道的な goals in war zones, identif ied the kidnappers as members of ISWA - Islamic 明言する/公表する's offshoot in West Africa, after 以前 拒絶する/低下するing to 指名する the group.

Islamic 明言する/公表する in West Africa 分裂(する) from the Islamist 謀反の group Boko Haram in 2016 and has killed hundreds of 兵士s in attacks in northeastern Nigeria in the past few months, 安全 and 軍の sources have told Reuters.

Like Boko Haram, ISWA wants to create a separate 明言する/公表する in northeast Nigeria that 固執するs to a strict 解釈/通訳 of Islamic 法律. (付加 報告(する)/憶測ing by Ahmed Kingimi in Maiduguri and Alexis Akwagyiram in Lagos; editing by Raissa Kasolowsky by David Stamp)

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