The Nigerian Army has said that more camps of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram have been destroyed.
Advertisement
The Niger Republic military officials added that the soldiers drove back the militants, killing around 20 of them.
The military said the captives were “mainly women and children” who have been evacuated for rehabilitation.
Anadolu Agency could not independently verify these claims but the army insists that it would decimate the militants by a December deadline given by President Muhammadu Buhari, although analysts have urged caution.
There has also not been any indication that any of the more than 200 schoolgirls seized by the Islamists in April previous year in Chibok town, Borno state, was among those rescued so far.
The report further states, “Boko Haram has ramped up cross-border attacks into Niger, Chad and Cameroon from its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria in recent months”.
He stated that troops are on hot pursuit of the attackers into Sambisa forest with a view to eliminating all of them while the Nigerian Air Force is also bombarding their locations.
The army, in early August, said it had freed 178 people, that includes more than 100 children, that was followed by an operation near Aulari town, which is about 70 kilometres south of Maiduguri.
Advertisement
Amnesty global estimates that at least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the start of 2014.
