Boko Haram's former hostages

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Michelle Faul is the Nigeria bureau chief for the Associated Press news agency. She met some of the women, who told her about their rescue. Some of the former hostages, described how their fellow captives were stoned to death by Boko Haram fighters for refusing to run away, as the Nigerian military approached. The army said it has rescued more than 700 people held hostage by Boko Haram. One group of nearly 300 women and children was brought out of the Sambisa forest to a government camp in the town of Yola, in northern Nigeria which borders Cameroon.