Photo:Rescued Girls and Women From Sambisa Forest Now with NEMA

The Nigerian military in a statement released earlier said it had rescued 260 women and children who got stuck in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa state after they fled from Madagali village in Adamawa state during one of the Boko Haram attacks on their community.
Part of the statement released reads;

Troops on patrol yesterday located 260 women and children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa state where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists. They have now been conveyed back to their various communities in Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling. Some of them disclosed that they had to abandon their homes to escape from the terrorists when Madagali came under attack, while others were actually abducted. . The terrorists were however sacked from the Madagali recently. A number of terrorists died in an encounter with with troops who caught up with them as they fled prior to the recovery of the women and children.

Rescued persons Being Conveyed in a Truck

Women and children rescued from the Boko Haram sect have been handed over to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) by the Nigerian Army in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.

The agency, which now takes full responsibility of the first batch released within days after the army found hundreds of other hostages, have given assurance that the  rescued persons would be taken care of under tight security.

Many of the children looked severely malnourished while some of the women held in captivity for almost 12 months were unable to walk nor talk audibly on arrival.

Fourteen trucks from the Nigerian Army fully loaded with women and children, with hunger, uncertainty and deep sorrow clearly written on their faces, arrived in Yola at about 6.30pm local time. They disembark to meet caretakers of NEMA.

Most of the rescued persons handed over to the agency by the Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade, Aba Popoola, were children.