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| Two killed in suspected Boko Haram attack in Cameroon |
| 2014-05-06 |
| [Beirut Daily Star] At least two people were killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans on a military police outpost in northern Cameroon early on Monday, state radio and a government front man said. The Nigerian Boko Haram group has been using Cameroon's Far North region as a base for attacks in neighbouring Nigeria and is suspected to be behind a number of kidnappings in the region in recent months. It was reported on Monday to have grabbed credit for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... . Cameroon state radio said some 30 suspected members of the armed Islamist group attacked a gendarme post at around 2 a.m. (0100 GMT). "In the heavy exchange of gunfire, a gendarmerie chief warrant officer was rubbed out," the radio said. "A man in a cell was also rubbed out, while two other men in the cell were seriously maimed." The attackers freed a suspected Boko Haram bully boy detained there and escaped with weapons, it said. "I can confirm that an attack took place but we are still waiting for more details," Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary told Rooters. Cameroon said in March it would send 700 soldiers to its northeastern border as part of regional efforts to tackle the gang. |
| Posted by:Fred |