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| Nigerian soldiers walking in the street in the remote north-eastern town of Baga in Borno State. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images |
The
following excerpts are from CNN:
Hotoro,
Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Girls rescued from Boko Haram terror camps in
Sambisa Forest on Tuesday are "not the Chibok girls,"
Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman said.
However,
one official did not rule out that captives from other Boko Haram
camps that were raided might include some of the 200 girls abducted
in April 2014 from a school in Chibok.
Nigerian
troops rescued 200 girls and 93 women Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest
in the northeastern part of the country, the Nigerian Armed Forces
announced on its official Twitter account. The forest is a stronghold
for the militant Boko Haram group and is not far from Chibok.
Military
spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said the rescued girls and women
are still being screened and none has spoken to their families yet.
The
2014 mass abduction from Chibok led to an international social media
movement, #BringBackOurGirls, to rescue them. Boko Haram, a militant
Islamist group, has been kidnapping females for years and has
hundreds in their custody.
The
Tokumbere, Sassa and Tlafa terror camps were raided and destroyed,
said a source close to the military. The Tokumbere camp is the most
notorious, where the training of small children by Boko Haram is said
to have occurred, the source said. Boko Haram terrorists were killed
in the operation, but the military did not say how many.
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