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Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan and agencies

Nigerian security forces free more than 300 hostages in ‘largest single-day recovery’

A man in a long dark orange robe stands among burnt debris and damaged homes after the attack in Woro. There are piles of ash and charred corrugated iron panels around him.
More than 160 of the freed abductees had been kidnapped in a February attack on Woro, Kwara state, pictured. Photograph: Light Oriye Tamunotonye/AFP/Getty Images

Nigerian security forces have rescued more than 300 abducted people in what the president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, hailed as the largest single-day hostage recovery in the country’s history.

The release was announced on Wednesday after a joint operation, conducted by the military, police and counter-terrorism units, freed victims held captive in the dense forests of the Kainji Lake national park in the north-central region.

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