Abuja: Over 60 women and girls kidnapped last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have ran away their captors on Sunday.
A local vigilante Abbas Gava told on late Friday, “He had received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home”. A high-level security source in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, who has confirmed the escape news, asked for anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak on the issue.
Gava, a senior official of the local vigilantes in Borno State are working intimately with security officials, said journalists the women ran away when their captors went out to battle.
The senior official further said, “They took the bold step when their abductors moved out to carry out an operation.”
The Nigerian military said that fights occurred between the Islamists group fighters and the military late Friday after an attack by the rebels in the town of Damboa, where almost 50 of them were killed.
Over 60 Women, Girls Escaped Islamist Kidnappers In Nigeria
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