Over 60 women, girls escape Islamist abductors in Borno
on July 07, 2014
MAIDUGURI (AFP) More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by
suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their
captors, sources said Sunday.
Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had received an alert from my colleagues
that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home late
Friday.
A high-level security source in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, who
requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter,
confirmed the escape.
Gava, a senior official of the local vigilantes in Borno State who are
working closely with security officials, told journalists the women escaped
when their captors went out to fight.
They took the bold step when their abductors moved out to carry out an
operation, he said.
Clashes took place between the Islamists and the army late Friday after an
attack by the insurgents in the town of Damboa, where more than 50 of them
were killed, the army had said.
Spokesmen for the armed forces or the government could not be reached Sunday
for comment.
Activists of the Bring Back Our Girls movement meanwhile tried to march on
the presidential palace in Abuja Sunday in another reminder of the fate of
more than 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno state, on April 14, but were
asked by security forces to turn back.
Its 83 days today that the girls have been abducted, activist Aisha
Yesufu told the press.
We have been coming out for 68 days and nobody has really listened to us,
Yesufu told reporters after the march.
That is why the group decided that we should just take the protest back to
the President so that he will know that we are still out there after the 68
days that we have been coming out daily.
Security experts say the overstretched and under-resourced military is
incapable of fighting an effective counterinsurgency against the Boko Haram
militants, who have killed thousands in their five-year campaign for an
independent Islamic state in the north.
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