2015-02-17 11:18
Yaounde — The Cameroonian military says one of its bases on the
border with Nigeria has been attacked by suspected Boko Haram
extremists, leaving at least five soldiers dead.
Col. Joseph Nouma
said on Tuesday that eight other wounded soldiers had been brought to
the capital for medical treatment following the attack Monday on the
base in Waza.
The
renewed violence comes as heads of states from Central African
countries were ending a meeting in the Cameroonian capital about a joint
military response to the growing regional threat posed by the
Nigeria-based Islamic jihadist group.
Nouma
said that two machine guns and an armored vehicle had been seized from
the insurgents but hundreds of the militants escaped to Nigeria after
burning homes and looting.
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