Fifteen kidnapped Nigerians escape jihadist captors
Six women and nine children kidnapped by jihadists from Christian communities in Nigeria's northeast have escaped their captors, walking for six days through the bush to freedom, an official said Monday.
The 15 hostages were seized separately from the farming villages of Takulashi in Borno state's Chibok district and Kufre in neighbouring Adamawa's Hong district several months ago.
Chibok was the scene of the 2014 abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram which earned the jihadist group global notoriety.
Three of the hostages along with their five children were seized during a raid on Takulashi in October last year, while the other three with their four children were abducted from Kufre in May, according to Zuwaira Gambo, Borno's women affairs commissioner.
The hostages, including an eight-month pregnant woman from Kufre, "trekked for six days" from Buni Yadi forest in nearby Yobe state to Damboa town in Borno, a distance of around 90 kilometres (56 miles), Gambo said.
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