adminYAOUNDE — At least seven people were killed and about 20 others were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in an overnight raid on a village near Cameroon’s northern border, a senior military officer said yesterday.
Tchakarmari, the village targeted early yesterday, lies north of Maroua, where dozens of people were killed in a series of suicide bombings by the Nigerian Islamist group last month.
“There was an attack at 1.30AM (0030 GMT). We’ve a figure of seven dead . . . We were informed that this was an attack by gunmen from Nigeria,” said the officer, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
The officer, deployed as part of a Cameroonian military operation aimed at stemming the spillover of violence from Boko Haram’s traditional strongholds in northeastern Nigeria, said that the death toll was provisional and could rise.
After the spate of suicide bombings in July, Cameroon’s government announced plans to send an additional 2,000 troops to boost security in the Far North region. — Reuters.
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