Cameroon security forces
have killed at least 10 suspected Boko Haram militants in three clashes
in the north of the country near its border with Nigeria, a senior
military official said on Thursday.
Cameroon has deployed
over 1,000 troops along the border after it came under pressure from
its neighbor for not doing enough to counter the Islamist insurgents, who are suspected of using Cameroon as a base.
Boko Haram grabbed global attention after kidnapping more than 200
girls from a school in northeast Nigeria in April, since then the group
has killed hundreds of civilians. It has also carried out attacks and
kidnappings in Cameroon.
Cameroon defense forces killed six
members of Boko Haram on Tuesday in the village of Wambache, Colonel
Felix Nji Formekong, a regional military commander, told Reuters.
In a separate clash at another village on the same day, two other
militants were killed, and another two were killed after a suspected
Boko Haram convoy attacked a Cameroon army patrol in another village on
Sunday, he added.
Boko Haram has waged a five-year campaign of
attacks on civilians and security forces in northern Nigeria. But the
mass kidnapping of the girls in April put the group in the global
spotlight and drew pledges of a regional coordinated push against it.
A number of Westerners have been kidnapped in Cameroon’s remote north over the last year.
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