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Boko Haram crisis: Nigerian army 'frees more camps'
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Nigeria's military says it has freed
another sizeable group of people during its offensive against Boko
Haram militants in the vast Sambisa forest.
One woman died and
eight others were wounded as nine camps belonging to the Islamist
insurgents were destroyed, army spokesman Col Sanu Usman said.
He told the BBC more than 100 men and boys were among more than 160 rescued in operations on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, the army said it had freed nearly 300 women and children.
The girls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014 were not among them.
Thousands have been killed in northern Nigeria since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009 to create an Islamic state.
In
February, Nigeria's military, backed by troops from neighbouring
countries, launched a major offensive against the Islamist fighters -
and has recaptured much of the territory Boko Haram had taken in the
previous year. Col
Usman told the BBC Hausa service that those rescued were being screened
to ascertain their mental health and are being kept in an undisclosed
secure location.
The eight injured women were in a critical condition, the spokesman said.
In
an earlier statement, he said one soldier and several Boko Haram field
commanders and foot soldiers had been killed in the fighting and several
armoured vehicles, some with anti-aircraft guns, had been destroyed.
In total 13 camps had been destroyed in Sambisa this week, the colonel said.
The Sambisa forest is said to be a huge area, surrounding a reserve of the same name.
It is not clear if those rescued were kidnapped or were taken hostage from villages taken over by the militants.
A local senator says the women and children are likely to have been residents of the north-eastern nature reserve.
"These
are farming communities and most of those left behind in villages are
the elderly ones, women and girls because the youth and the strong ones
normally have to run or otherwise they will be conscripted into the Boko
Haram insurgent group," Ali Ndume told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio
programme.
He said the Sambisa forest reserve is vast so it was
difficult to know how many people were still living in territory
controlled by the Islamist militants.
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