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Boko Haram militants kill 7 in Cameroon, Chad
[AlAhram] Nigeria's 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...Islamist Death Eaters have killed five civilians and two soldiers in fresh attacks 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... and Chad, local sources said Thursday. "A group of Boko Haram fighters made an incursion during (Tuesday) night in Assigashia," a source close to administrative authorities in the northern Cameroon border area said, asking not be named. "The attackers killed five people and maimed five more." The raid was confirmed along with the casualty toll by an official in the Cameroon security services. Assigashia is a border town which gives direct access to Nigeria and has seen many Boko Haram incursions in the past. The Nigerian Islamist Death Eaters are blamed for killing another civilian in the town in January. In Chad, meanwhile, two Chadian soldiers, including a captain, were killed in a Boko Haram ambush on Wednesday, a senior military official said Thursday. The attack took place in the west of the country in the Lake Chad region near the Nigerian frontier as the troops were returning from a border patrol. "The Boko Haram attackers disappeared into the islands" on the lake, the source said. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-23 |
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