Cameroon army frees 12 from Boko Haram captivity

After several hours of fighting, the Cameroonian army successfully freed twelve persons held by Boko Haram militants in the town of Tchabal located in the Adamawa region. The elements of the 31 Mechanized Infantry Division also routed twenty kidnappers. The Cameroonian hostages were kidnapped in Tchabal-Naboul, Tchabal-Mounguel and Saltaka villages in the department of Vina in the Adamawa region. 

The twelve people released included men, a woman and a teenage girl. The army also seized nine boxes of weapons of war, a Kalashnikov, amulets, Indian hemp and machetes. The hostage-takers were stuck in the Faro Park area between the region of Adamawa and the North. Two kidnappers were killed in the fighting while many of them were wounded but managed to escape.