Nigerian army says it freed over 5,000 people held by Boko Haram

Nigeria's armed force on Sunday said it had liberated more than 5,000 individuals held by the Islamist aggressor bunch Boko Haram

amid an operation throughout the weekend in the upper east of the nation.

Nigeria's armed force has in the course of the most recent year, now and then helped by troops from neighboring nations, recovered the greater part of the region that was lost to the gathering, which has pursued a seven-year insurrection went for making an Islamic state in the remote upper east.

The armed force said troops, bolstered by individuals from a grassroots security power, led assaults in 15 towns on Sunday, amid which they "killed six Boko Haram terrorists and injured a few others".

"The troops additionally freed more than 5,000 persons held prisoners by Boko Haram terrorists," it said in a messaged articulation. Reuters couldn't quickly autonomously confirm the liberating of the prisoners, partially because of the remoteness of the territory in which the military operation occurred.

Vehicles transporting women and children rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest by Nigeria Military arrive at the Internally displaced people's camp in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria May 2, 2015.

More than 15,000 individuals have been slaughtered and 2 million uprooted in Nigeria and neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon amid Boko Haram's revolt.

Be that as it may, the jihadist bunch, which a year ago swore dependability to Islamic State, still consistently arranges suicide bombings, for the most part in swarmed territories, for example, markets and places of love.

(Reporting by Alexis Akwagyiram; Editing by Digby Lidstone)

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