Nigeria's army 'rescues 200 girls from Boko Haram stronghold'

Nigeria's army says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women during a military operation to wrest back the Sambisa Forest from Boko Haram
 Nigeria's army claimed to have rescued almost 300 women and girls on Tuesday after seizing three "terrorist camps" from the radical Islamists of Boko Haram.

The army could not confirm whether any of the 219 schoolgirls abducted from the town of Chibok last April were among the freed captives.

But the apparently successful operation raised hopes that the children who were seized during Boko Haram's most notorious raid might be saved.