Nigerian security forces confirmed the escape of 63 women abducted by terror group Boko Haram last month, local media reported Monday, according to dpa. They managed to flee after their captors left to launch an attack at the weekend against Nigeria's army in Damboa, in the troubled northern Borno State, the Premium Times newspaper reported. "We don't have the details of their escape yet, but we believe God gave them the opportunity at the time the insurgents came in large numbers to attack Damboa," Abbas Gava, a member of a Civilian Task Force set up to help the army halt Boko Haram, was quoted as saying. Between five and seven women remained in captivity, according to Gava, one of them a nursing mother.
