Rescued Boko Haram victims have been
released into the care of authorities at a refugee camp in the eastern town of
Yola, an army spokesman said, reports ITRealms.
ITRealms also
gathered that the 275 women and children, many of whom had bandaged heads and
arms, arrived in the camp run by the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA) on Saturday night after days on the road, travelling in pickup trucks.
Nearly 700 kidnap victims have been
freed from Boko Haram's stronghold in the northeastern Sambisa Forest since
Tuesday, with the latest group of 234 women and children liberated on Friday, ITRealms learnt.
"We don't have the facilities
and resources to take care of these," army spokesman said. "The best
organization in the country to take care of these people is NEMA."
Initial indications are that none of
more than 200 schoolgirls snatched from their school dormitories in Chibok town
in April 2014 were among the three groups released this week.
While Boko Haram has been kidnapping
girls and women and turning them into cooks, sex slaves and human shields even
before the attack on Chibok, it was that one incident that drew global
attention to the six-year-old insurgency.
It is not known how many people Boko
Haram has abducted, but Amnesty International estimates the insurgents, who are
intent on bringing western Africa under Islamist rule, has taken more than
2,000 women and girls captive since the start of 2014, ITRealms gathered.
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