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Cameroon accuses militants of killing US missionary
[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] An American missionary bumped off 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 northwest anglophone region was killed during festivities sparked when snuffies attacked security forces and a university campus, Cameroon’s defence minister said Wednesday. Charles Wesco, 44, was travelling with his wife, son and a driver, when they came under fire on Tuesday. He died of his wounds in hospital later the same day in the regional capital Bamenda, the latest violence to rock the country’s English-speaking areas. Defence minister Joseph Beti Assomo called the shooting a "terrorist ambush" in a statement broadcast on state radio, adding that an inquiry had been opened. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-02 |
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