Nigeria's army rescues nearly 300 women from Boko Haram

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Soldiers in Nigeria have managed to free the women from a Boko Haram stronghold in the country's northeast. The army said the girls aren't those abducted from their school dormitories last year in Chibok.

Nigeria's army rescues nearly 300 women from Boko Haram
28.04.2015

Nigerian troops destroyed and cleared four militant camps, and rescued 200 abducted girls and 93 women during an offensive against the jihadi group Tuesday, "but they are not the Chibok girls," army spokesman Col. Sani Usman told The Associated Press.

The prisoners have been found in Sambisa forest, in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, large parts of which have been occupied by the Islamist organization.

Several diplomats and intelligence officers had previously stated that at least some of the dozens of girls who were kidnapped in the town of Chibok last year causing international outrage are being held in the forest.

Doubts over army info

Despite the army's claims, community leaders from Chibok Pogu Bitrus said that they were still trying to check the released prisoners' identities. He said the town had learned of the rescue through social media, not from the military.

[Sherman A1]

1. Good news

if true.