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| Death toll from Boko Haram Cameroon raids rises to 15 |
| 2014-07-30 |
| [The Nation (Pak)] YAOUNDE : At least 15 people were killed in two attacks blamed on 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... in northern 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... , with the wife of the country's deputy prime minister among a dozen people reportedly kidnapped, a security source said Monday. The corpse count from the two reportedly simultaneous raids on Sunday by Nigerian Islamic murderous Moslems on the palace of the Sultan Kolofata, and the nearby home of one of the country's most senior politicians, deputy premier Amadou Ali, rose on Monday from six to at least 15. The sultan, Seiny Boukar Lamine, his wife and their five children are among the hostages, a government front man confirmed. Two gendarmes and a member of the Cameroonian army's elite Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) were among the dead, a gendarme involved in the follow-up operation against the faceless myrmidons told AFP. 'We listed around 15 dead, including two gendarmes and a soldier from the BIR,' he said. 'About a dozen people were kidnapped.' Around 200 faceless myrmidons were involved in the raids, Cameroon's minister of communications, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, told local TV on Sunday. The attacks come after Cameroon stepped up its fight against Boko Haram in the wake of the international outcry over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls on April 14. 'It's a big blow, the country is in a state of shock,' a journalist on national television said. He claimed that some of the victims had been 'burned alive'. Boko Haram has long considered the northern Kolofata region, close to the Nigerian border, as a haven for its activities, and as a route for smuggling weapons. Asked about the fate of the hostages, the gendarmerie source said there were reasons to be optimistic and 'that maybe we will have a happy ending rather quickly, but at this moment that is not the case.' The dramatic raids follow the deaths of several Cameroonian soldiers and gendarmes killed in two attacks blamed on the faceless myrmidons on Thursday and Friday. |
| Posted by:Fred |