Boko Haram behead 3 in Cameroon raid
Three villagers were beheaded during weekend raids in
Cameroon by Boko Haram insurgents from neighbouring Nigeria, who killed another
four people in a separate raid overnight, security forces said Monday.
The first attack took place on Sunday in the neighbouring
villages of Tchebe-Tchebe and Dzaba, about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the
Nigerian border, said a security agent based in the region.
The beheadings took place in Tchebe-Tchebe., reports AFP.
The assailants also set fire to land owned by villagers as
well as a Catholic church, the source added.
The report was confirmed by another local security source,
who said that access to the villages was difficult for troops because of the
mountainous terrain.
Another four people were killed overnight in the town of
Afade, much farther north, near Lake Chad, Cameroon police said.
"Boko Haram attacked the town of Afade around one in
the morning (Monday)," a gendarmerie official said, requesting anonymity.
He said the assailants torched police and military
facilities and slit an inmate's throat.
Three other people in detention died in the fire, a local
humanitarian worker, Mey Ali, said.
Sunday's violence followed a series of Boko Haram suicide
bombings in the far north of Cameroon, which is taking part in a regional
military campaign against the extremists.
The cross-border region is frequently attacked by Boko
Haram, which launched its campaign for a hardline Islamic caliphate in
northeastern Nigeria in 2009, at an estimated cost of more than 15,000 lives.
On Saturday night, a 12-year-old girl blew herself up in the
town of Maroua, killing at least 20 people and wounding 79 others in the fifth
suicide bombing in Cameroon in two weeks.
Cameroonian authorities last week extended a ban on the
wearing of the full Islamic veil to the east of the country and the Littoral
region in the southwest, where the city of Douala is situated. The ban,
implemented because the garment can conceal explosives, was already in effect
in Cameroon's far north.
Comments
Post a Comment