The young woman, who is five months pregnant, has been released along with her three children in an operation in Borno
April 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Nigerian Army announced this Thursday the rescue of one of the more than 250 girls kidnapped more than ten years ago by the terrorist group Boko Haram during a massive assault on a school in the town of Chibok, located in the state of Borno ( northeast), in an operation in which his three children have also been freed.
“Nigerian Army troops deployed in the northeast have continued their significant momentum in the fight against terrorism and insurgency with the recent rescue of Lydia Simon, a Chibok girl kidnapped for years by Boko Haram terrorists,” he noted. through a statement published on his account on the social network X.
Thus, he indicated that Simon had been identified as the 68th kidnapped girl during the attack in Chibok and added that she is currently five months pregnant. The Army, which has not given details about the age of her three children, has indicated that the operation was carried out in the Gwoza area.
Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 students from a school in Chibok in an attack carried out on April 14, 2014, just over ten years ago. However, 57 managed to escape on their own, while 103 were freed in an agreement with the Government and another 20 were freed by security forces, with more than 90 still in the hands of the group.
The African country commemorated on Sunday the tenth anniversary of the kidnapping, which unleashed a wave of global indignation materialized in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, amid a growing security crisis in this and other areas of the country that has resulted in thousands of kidnappings at the hands of the terrorist group and other criminal gangs in recent months.
