(photo credit: Stephen Melkisethian)
From AP via The Huffington Post:
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria's military says it has rescued 234 more girls and women from a Boko Haram forest stronghold in the country's northeast.
The announcement on the Nigerian Defence Headquarters official Twitter account Saturday brings the number declared rescued this week to more than 677.
It comes as the army deployed ground troops following air raids on Sambisa Forest camps said to be the last holdout of the Islamic extremists.
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And they still haven't fully cleared the Sambisa Forest, which appears to be where so many of Boko Haram's abductees are hidden. The Nigerian Army released this statement today:
“(the girls) have been evacuated to join others at the place of ongoing screening...The assault on the forest is continuing from various fronts and efforts are concentrated on rescuing hostages of civilians and destroying all terrorist camps and facilities in the forest”.
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It isn't known if any of the recently rescued girls are from Chibok - the site of a 2014 Boko Haram kidnapping of 219 school girls.