Nigerian military rescued 200 girls and 93 women in an operation against Boko Haram militants in the Sambisa Forest.
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok, in Nigeria’s northeast, and took them into the Sambisa Forest.
Several dozen escaped and more than 200 girls are still missing.
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Nigerian military could not however confirm if the girls rescued were the same as those kidnapped in Chibok last year.
The military said troops captured and destroyed three Boko Haram camps, and that the 200 girls who were rescued were being screened and interviewed.
The Islamist group has kidnapped thousands of girls, women and young men.
According to a new Amnesty International report, Boko Haram had kidnapped at least 2,000 girls and women since the beginning of 2014.
Many of Boko Haram’s abduction victims have been trained to fight and forced into sexual slavery.
