More than 60 girls and women kidnapped by Nigeria's Boko Haram (https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/news/a/24398374/more-than-60-women-girls-escape-islamist-abductors-in-nigeria/) have escaped their captors, a security source told Agence France Presse on Sunday.
The women who escaped had been abducted from Kummabza village in late June (http://news.yahoo.com/more-60-women-girls-abducted-nigeria-094008480.html). Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 schoolgirls abducted about two months ago from a school in Chibok.
Abbas Gava, a local vigilante who has been working with Nigerian security officials, told AFP that the women made a break for it (https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/news/a/24398374/more-than-60-women-girls-escape-islamist-abductors-in-nigeria/) late Friday when the militants left to stage an attack. An anonymous high-level security source confirmed the escape to AFP.
Nigerian news website Premium Times earlier reported the escape (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tV1alCOq50IJ:www.premiumtimesng.com/news/164505-63-abducted-borno-women-escape-from-boko-haram.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us), also citing an anonymous top security officer, though that report seems to no longer be accessible on its website.
Source: huffingtonPost