A group of 57 girls kidnapped in Nigeria escaped with their families and are

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Nigeria confirms that 57 girls kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram escaped and returned to their families, reports Reuters. However, girls are 219 hostages in the fields of militants.

The April 14, 2014 members of the radical Islamist movement Boko Haram, whose name means’ Western education is a pecado’-attacked a high school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, and abducted 276 girls.

The alleged purpose of the operation of the radicals was to sell the hostages as slaves or get ransoms to finance their activities.