YAOUNDE, June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Boko Haram militants have killed four civilians and three soldiers in Cameroon’s Far North region, a local official and two security sources said.
Boko Haram members attacked the Hitawa military post near the Nigerian border in the early hours of Tuesday, a local official said.
“There were seven dead — four civilians and three members of the military,” he said.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram and its dissident branch, the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), have in recent years carried out deadly attacks against security forces and civilians in northern Cameroon, as well as adjacent parts of Nigeria, Niger and Chad.
The Cameroonian authorities call both groups “Boko Haram.”
Boko Haram launched an insurgency in northeast Nigeria in 2009 before it spread to neighbouring countries.
More than 36,000 people have been killed since, mainly in Nigeria, and three million were forced to flee their homes, the United Nations says. — NNN-AGENCIES
