“Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed (during the operation) by an accidental mine explosion. Five other soldiers were wounded,” Bakary.
He added that the army captured weapons and ammunition and found a centre for production of homemade mines.
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Muhammed Abba, a resident of the village and deputy commander of a local fighting group opposed to Boko Haram was quoted as saying. “Before we could say a word, they started firing. That scared most of us and we began to run,” he added
The report also said 900 hostages, being held by the dreaded sect, were set free in a three-day operation in the far north of the country
The kidnapping, which occurred in the north of Cameroon on Sunday around the village of Mabass, was one of the largest abductions on Cameroonian soil
The Parliament, which had been on a break since December 31, 2014, was recalled for an extraordinary session to give the government authorisation to send the troops
The military initially said 143 Boko Haram fighters had died in the over five hours of fighting
The group, which has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds in its bid to carve out an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, had also targeted Cameroon over the past year. At least 15 people were killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on a bus in northern Cameroon on New Year’s day
Local people in northwest Cameroon alerted the military on Saturday to the camp in Guirvidig locality, near the border with northeastern Nigeria, said Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck, spokesman for Cameroon’s Ministry of Defence
Militants of the Nigerian Islamist group seized the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday in an attack in the northern town of Kolofata involving more than 200 assailants
A statement on Monday by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, said the President described as shocking, callous and reprehensible the multiple bomb blasts that occurred in Kano within 24 hours and the unrelenting attacks by the Boko Haram at a time the Muslim faithful are observing the holy festival of Eid el Fitri
Cameroon has deployed over 1,000 troops along the long and porous border after it came under pressure from its neighbour for not doing enough to counter the Islamist insurgents, who are suspected of using Cameroon as a base