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Nigeria rescues nearly 200 kidnap victims in northwest
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ABUJA, 09 October 2021, (TON): Police said “Nigerian security forces have rescued nearly 200 kidnap victims during raids on camps of criminal gangs in dense forests in the country's northwest.”
Heavily armed gangs known locally as bandits have plagued northwest and central Nigeria for years, raiding and looting villages and abducting for ransom, but violence has surged over the past year.
Police said “the rescued victims 187 men, women and children were freed in Zamfara State, where they had been kidnapped in separate bandit attacks.”
Police released photographs showing dozens of men, women and children sitting huddled on the ground after they were freed.
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