Suspected Boko Haram militants kill at least 13 in Cameroon
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 13
people and wounded eight others in a grenade attack in northern Cameroon on
Sunday, a security source and a local official told Reuters.
The unidentified assailants threw a grenade into a
group of people inside a camp for displaced people in the commune of Mozogo near
the Nigerian border in the Far North region, said mayor Medjeweh Boukar.
Boukar was informed by locals that 13 had died. A
security official who confirmed the attack said that 2 wounded also died,
bringing the toll to 15.
Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve
out Daesh caliphate based in Nigeria.
The violence, which has cost the lives of 30,000
people and displaced millions more, has frequently spilled over into
neighboring Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
In June last year, around 300 suspected Boko Haram
militants swarmed onto an island on Lake Chad in Cameroon’s far north and
killed 24 people, including 16 Cameroonian soldiers stationed at military
outposts.
