Law enforcers conducted lengthy negotiations with the militants, forcing them to unconditionally release the people.
In Nigeria, police and security services were able to free more than 100 local residents from militants who were kidnapped in June in the northwestern state of Zamfara.
This was said by the spokesman for the region’s police Mohammed Shehu on Wednesday, July 21.
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At a press conference in Guso, the capital of Zamfara state, he said that a group of militants attacked the village of Manawa in Maru District on June 8 and abducted 100 local residents, mostly women and children.
Police and security forces negotiated with the militants, forcing them to unconditionally release the residents.
Shehu urged the local population to promptly inform law enforcement and security forces about the whereabouts and actions of the militants.
Recall that over the past few months in a number of areas of Nigeria there have been attacks, which led to the death, injury and abduction of a large number of people.
So, on July 10, it was reported that in the state of Zamfara, militants raided five villages, during which they killed at least 43 people.
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