Sixty-three women and girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month in Nigeria escaped from their captors and have returned to their burnt village, a security source and a local vigilante fighting the militant group said.
The hostages were seized
from the Kummabza village in northern Borno state on June 18 after a
four-day invasion of the village by Boko Haram insurgents.
The militants
killed 30 men and burned the entire village.
Their escape is good news, but the Islamist terrorist group is still believed to be holding about 200 schoolgirls abducted April 14 from their hostels in the town of Chibok -- a case that drew international outrage and prompted a global campaign for their release.
Boko Haram has been active as a violent group since 2009 and has killed Nigerians, Christian at rates frequently exceeding 100 people weekly.
The name "Boko Haram"
translates to "Western education is sin" in the local Hausa language.
The militant group is trying to impose strict Sharia law across Nigeria,
the most populous country in Africa.
The group especially
opposes the education of women. Under its version of Sharia law, women
should be at home raising children and looking after their husbands, not
at school learning to read and write.
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