LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military is moving 200 girls and 93 women from a northeastern forest where they were rescued from Boko Haram extremists and plans to check their physical and mental health, an army spokesman said today.

Col. Sani Usman said many are traumatized. The military is flying in medical and intelligence teams to examine them, he said.

Their evacuation from the Sambisa Forest — which the military says is the last stronghold of the Islamic extremists — began Tuesday but Usman would not say where the victims are being taken.

On Tuesday night he had indicated that none of the 219 who are still missing more than a year after being snatched from a boarding school in Chibok were among those rescued. On Wednesday he said he was not categorically saying that none of the boarding school girls were among the group and that they still needed to be questioned to determine their identities.

The mass kidnapping from Chibok brought Boko Haram to the attention of the world and the failure to rescue them aroused condemnation of Nigeria’s government and military.

Of those rescued in recent days, an intelligence officer and a soldier said Boko Haram used some of them as armed human shields.

Nigeria’s military largely stood by last year as Boko Haram took over dozens of towns and declared a large swath of land an Islamic caliphate. That changed when a multinational offensive led by Chad began at the end of January. Now, Nigeria’s military says it has driven the Islamic extremists out of all towns.