(VOVworld) - Boko Haram has released nearly 200 hostages, most of them women, who were kidnapped from a village in the northeast Nigerian state of Yobe. 

 A total of 192 people were released on Friday from two Islamist enclaves, where they had been kept since a January 6 raid on Katarko, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the state capital Damaturu. Boko Haram's most notorious mass abduction was in last April, when it seized 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, in Borno State, triggering global outrage.