The Nigerian military says troops have rescued 47 captives from an insurgent enclave in Borno State. Multiple outlets report that the operation takes place in Kangarwa village in the Lake Chad region, within Kukawa Local Government Area. The military credits sustained offensive operations involving both ground and air actions for locating and freeing the victims from the insurgents’ hold.
While the reports use different labels for the armed group—some describe the captives as Boko Haram and others as ISWAP—each account ties the rescue to the same location and the same number of people freed. Information Nigeria specifies that the 47 rescued are mostly women and children and attributes the announcement to Capt. Mohammed Goni, Acting Military Information Officer for the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK).
The military does not detail further circumstances of captivity or the current status of any suspects in the excerpts provided. The reports emphasize that the rescue follows continued offensives against insurgent strongholds in the broader Lake Chad area.
