According to national media reports, an operation was carried out against Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest in Borno state.
The Chibok girls Hauwa Mutah and Esther Markus, who were held hostage by Boko Haram, were rescued in the operation.
The Boko Haram terrorist organization raided a boarding school in the city of Chibok in Borno state, in the northeast of the country, on April 14, 2014, and kidnapped 276 girls.
107 students were rescued
57 of the students managed to escape from the hands of the members of the organization soon after. 107 students were rescued in the operations organized by the security forces against the organization.
More than 20 thousand people lost their lives in the mass terrorist acts organized by Boko Haram, which has been in existence in Nigeria since the early 2000s, since 2009.
The terrorist organization has also carried out attacks in the country’s border neighbors Cameroon, Chad and Niger since 2015. At least 2,000 people lost their lives in the organization’s attacks in the Lake Chad Basin.
Hundreds of thousands of people had to migrate due to terrorist attacks and conflicts in the country.