Nigeria, April 15 -- Six former refugees repatriated from Chad have regained their freedom after paying a ransom to their Boko Haram kidnappers.

The terrorists abducted eight former refugees a fortnight ago while they were fishing on the outskirts of their community in Doron Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State.

The incident happened just months after the victims were resettled in the community after spending over ten years as refugees in the Chad Republic fleeing from the Boko Haram insurgents.

The insurgents had demanded N300,000 as ransom for each of the kidnapped persons,

On Saturday, one of the victims said the insurgents have rel66jmeased six of them.

"They released six of us," Bukar Shuib (not his real name) said,...