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Hundreds of captives freed from Boko Haram mountain hideout
At least 360 people kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists from a mainly Muslim community in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state in March have been freed from a remote mountain hideout.
The circumstances of how they were freed are disputed. The army says it had launched an unprecedented intelligence-led operation that had been weeks in the planning and taken the Islamist militants by surprise.
But a local group, the Borno South Youth Initiative, says it mediated the unconditional release, putting the number of those freed at 416.
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Boko Haram infamously kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok in 2014 - around 90 of whom remain missing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8j0jn4xjgo
The circumstances of how they were freed are disputed. The army says it had launched an unprecedented intelligence-led operation that had been weeks in the planning and taken the Islamist militants by surprise.
But a local group, the Borno South Youth Initiative, says it mediated the unconditional release, putting the number of those freed at 416.
...
Boko Haram infamously kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok in 2014 - around 90 of whom remain missing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8j0jn4xjgo
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