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Boko Haram 'slaughter' 11 people in north Cameroon: Officials
[AlAhram] 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...fighters killed 11 civilians in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... 's far north overnight, targetting a village where several members of the Islamist group were recently nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! , officials told AFP Monday. The Boko Haram attack in the village of Gouderi was "an act of reprisal. The Islamist gunnies acted after the arrest of a number of their comrades there," a local self-defence group official told AFP. "Boko Haram slaughtered 11 people," added the official who requested anonymity. The attack and the corpse count were confirmed by a security services source. Since 2014, when Cameroon entered the war against Boko Haram, the Islamist fighters have killed 2,000 civilians and military personnel in the far north of the country, and kidnapped a thousand more, according to International Crisis Group (ICG) figures. Across the Nigerian border a suicide kaboom at a mosque left five people dead. Five Dead in Suicide Bombing in Nigeria Mosque [AnNahar] At least five people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a militia member assisting the military against Boko Haram jihadists said. The leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Ajiri Yala, some 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of Maiduguri, said the attack happened at about 4:30 am (0330 GMT). "A male suicide bomber disguised as a worshipper entered the mosque while people were gathering for the morning prayers," he told AFP by telephone. "He detonated his explosives. He killed five people and injured several others." Mosques that do not ascribe to Boko Haram's extremist views are seen as legitimate targets, as are people and places seen to be supportive of the secular government. On Sunday, a CJTF member manning a checkpoint in the Muna area of Maiduguri was killed and another injured when two women strapped with explosives blew themselves up. A week earlier, 14 people were killed when three women detonated their explosives near the Muna Garage camp, which is home to tens of thousands of people made homeless by the violence. Last week, at least 15 soldiers were killed in a raid on a military camp north of Damaturu, which is the capital of Yobe state bordering Borno. The so-called Islamic State group, which backs the Boko Haram faction headed by Abu Mus'ab al-Barnawi, claimed the attack. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-31 |
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