10 Killed As Suspected Boko Haram Members Raid Cameroon Village

Armed militants suspected to be members of Boko haram, raided Zigague, a village in remote northern part of Cameroon, killing 10 people and kidnapping one, state radio said.

The Nation reports that the heavily armed men arrived in a pick-up truck and on motorcycles at about 2pm local time (1300 GMT) on Wednesday, August 6 and stormed the house of a local chief, and kidnapped one of his children.

They were said to have stolen a car also.

Albert Mekondane Obounou, senior divisional officer for the Logone and Chari region, told state radio that on their way back from their raid, they ran into Cameroon soldiers and succeeded in shooting nine villagers and a soldier of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) to death.

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Boko Haram, based in north-eastern Nigeria, has intensified cross-border raids into Cameroon and other neigbouring countries in recent times.

Last month, precisely July 27, the terrorists abducted the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister, Amadou Ali, during an attack on Ali’s home in the northern town of Kolofata. She was reportedly rescued the next day.

Following the attack, the president, Paul Biya had dismissed two senior army officers.

On July 24, two Cameroonian soldiers reportedly lost their lives in an overnight cross-border raid in the village of Balgaram in northern Cameroon, by suspected members of the dreaded sect.

Source: Legit.ng