A military operation rescued about 76 hostages, many of them children, from bandits in Katsina following precision airstrikes on a bandit camp. Airstrikes are being used as part of a strategy to dismantle criminal hideouts, weaken networks, and end cycles of killings, kidnappings, and extortion. The rescued group was believed to include people taken in an assault on a mosque in Unguwan Mantau that killed 50. Simultaneously, the military struck a militant camp in northeastern Nigeria, where insurgency has claimed around 35,000 lives and displaced two million people, according to United Nations estimates. Rural clashes between farmers over water and land have also increased recently.
Local authorities in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina have confirmed that a military operation had rescued some 76 hostages, many of them children, who were being held by "bandits." The group were freed after a series of precision airstrikes on group's camp. Nasir Mu'azu, state commissioner for internal security, said airstrikes are now "part of a broader strategy to dismantle criminal hideouts, weaken their networks and put an end to the cycle of killings, kidnappings, and extortion that have plagued innocent citizens."
The group rescued on Saturday were believed to be part of a group taken in an assault on a mosque in Unguwan Mantau last week, which killed 50 people. At the same time, the military launched an airstrike on a militant camp in northeastern Nigeria, where clashes with insurgents have claimed 35,000 lives and displaced 2 million people, according to the United Nations.
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