Chad’s troops have rescued most of the
100 people kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect, following a successful
military operation against the sect.
The terrorist group earlier this month
kidnapped 100 people, according to a Nigerian security official and a
local self-defence member.
The Associated Press reported that the rescue operation took place on Friday.
The abductions took place on August 10
in Doron Baga in the Kukawa area near the border with Chad, said the
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not
authorised to speak to the media.
He said the terrorists were stopped as
they crossed the Chad border by Chadian soldiers who killed most of them
and set free most of the captives.
Muhammed Gava, a member of the anti-Boko
Haram vigilante movement, said 20 females and about 70 young men had
been forced to board speed boats in Lake Chad, which lies on the border
between Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
A source, who spoke to journalists in
Maiduguri, said the insurgents attacked the village in the evening and
took away some boys and young men.
Some of those that fled the area that
were sighted in Maiduguri after the attack, said they had to flee
because of the constant attacks by the insurgents.
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