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Security forces free 200 kidnap victims in northwest Nigeria

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Nigerian security forces have rescued nearly 200 kidnap victims during raids on camps of criminal gangs in dense forests in the country’s northwest, police said.

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.

The rescued victims – 187 men, women and children – were freed in Zamfara State, where they had been kidnapped in separate bandit attacks, police said late Thursday. Police released photographs showing dozens of men, women and children sitting huddled on the ground after they were freed on Thursday.

“The abducted victims who spent many weeks in captivity were unconditionally rescued following extensive search and rescue operations that lasted for hours,” Zamfara State police spokesperson Mohammed Shehu said in a statement.

The rescue was part of a weekslong broader military operation in Zamfara and other northwestern states that has included telecom blackouts to disrupt bandit communications. The army said last week that it had “neutralized” nearly 300 criminals during the operations. But violence has not stopped.

On Tuesday, around 100 bandits on motorcycles besieged Kuryan Madaro village in Zamfara, killing 14 people and seizing money and mobile phones, residents said.

News of attacks in the northwest often emerges slowly since authorities suspended telecommunications last month in Zamfara and parts of Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna states. Telecom service was restored to Zamfara capital Gusau last week.

The gangs, who maintain camps in forests straddling those four states, have been increasingly targeting schools where they kidnap students for ransom. Hundreds of schoolchildren have been abducted in mass kidnappings since December. Most have been freed or released after ransoms but dozens are still being held.

Bandit violence is just one challenge facing Nigeria’s security forces, who are also battling a 12-year extremist insurgency in the northeast that has killed more than 40,000 people.

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