One of the women who escaped said about 75 men have been killed in Gwoza, a community southeast of Borno State still under Boko Haram control. The woman whose identity is being concealed for security reason, said she and other women who have been held in captive by Boko Haram, escaped from Gwoza to a neighbouring community in Adamawa State already liberated by the military after a bomb explosion pulled down a house where she was held. "A bomb blast occurred in a house where many women were held captive by Boko Haram and there was confusion everywhere. Two people died and many injured. The confusion provided opportunity for me and others to flee the town," she told journalists in Maiduguri, Borno State capital yesterday. Sharing her experience and the ordeal of thousands of other residents still held in Boko Haram captive at Gwoza, some 187 kilometres from Maiduguri, the woman said many women are kept in selected houses by Boko Haram who often denied people of food for days. She said life in the town declared as Islamic Caliphate by Boko Haram late 2014, was deplorable as residents live according to the dictate of their captors.
