63 girls and women of the 70 abducted between June 12th - June 14th, 2014 by the Islamic extremists - Boko Haram have escaped. They were kidnapped from Kummabza village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.
According to security sources, the women have reunited with their families.
Some witnesses said that their unexpected freedom was facilitated when the insurgents left them in the camp to embark on an operation where they attacked military formations on Friday.
This, the sources said, presented the women with an opportunity to flee from their abductors.
Nigerian security forces and federal government officials had denied reports of another mass abduction from three villages in the northeast on June 22.
Small-scale kidnappings by Boko Haram extremists had been going on for months when they drew international condemnation for the abductions of more than 200 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok town of Borno state April 15. Some 219 of those girls still are missing.
The government and military failure to rescue them has attracted criticism at home and abroad.
Local government chairman Pogu Bitrus and vigilante leader Abbas Gava said they verified that 63 women and girls escaped Thursday and Friday while their captors were engaged in a major battle with soldiers.
The 200 plus kidnapped Chibok school girls kidnapped in April are still missing. Read their on MannaEXPRESS.
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