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According to the police, 187 victims were released in Zamfara and they were arrested in different attacks.
Police said Nigerian security personnel rescued nearly 200 abducted people during a raid on a criminal gang camp in the dense forests of the northwest of the country.
For many years, heavily armed criminal groups called bandits by the locals have plagued northwestern and central Nigeria, attacking and looting villages and kidnapping for ransom.
Police said late Thursday that the rescued victims-187 men, women and children-were released in Zamfara State, where they were kidnapped in different bandit attacks.
Pictures and videos distributed by the police to the media showed some people in ragged clothes struggling to sit down while waiting to be sent home.
Mohammed Shehu, a spokesman for the Zanfala State Police, said in a statement: “After an extensive search and rescue operation that lasted several hours, the kidnapped victim was unconditionally rescued after several weeks of imprisonment.”
The rescue was part of a more extensive military operation over several weeks in Zamfara and other northwestern states, which included telecommunications blackouts to disrupt robber communications.
These gangs hide camps in the forests across the states of Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna. They are increasingly attacking schools, where they kidnap students for ransom.
Since December last year, hundreds of school children have been abducted in mass kidnappings. Most people were released or released after paying the ransom, but dozens of people are still in custody.
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