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A Cameroonian soldier has been killed in Kumshe area of Borno state, Nigeria, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the soldier was killed when a security vehicle he was travelling in climbed a landmine planted by Boko Haram in Kumshe.
Cameroon and Nigeria have been fighting Boko Haram in the Sambisa forest for several years now.
Boko Haram days ago killed at least seven Nigerian soldiers and injured about 19 others following an ambush in Borno state.
The latest deaths among Nigerian and Cameroonian soldiers, many argue, are an indication that the terrorists are far from being defeated as repeatedly claimed by Nigeria.
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Boko Haram terrorists killed three Nigerian soldiers on Wednesday and injured five others during heavy fight in Borno state, the army said in a statement without disclosing the identities of the dead and injured.
“Unfortunately however, 3 soldiers paid the supreme price, while 5 others were wounded in action. Similarly, 1 Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected vehicle belonging to the Brigade was badly damaged,” said army spokesman, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka.
“The bodies of the late soldiers and those that sustained injuries have since been evacuated. The wounded soldiers are in stable condition,” he added.
He said troops had an encounter with Boko Haram fighters who were in possession of an armoured vehicle, some trucks, arms and ammunition.
The encounter took place on Wednesday during clearance operation at Dulsa and Buk, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, General Sani Kukasheka, said in a statement.
Troops of 25 Task Force Brigade, 7 Division Nigerian Army on Operation LAFIYA DOLE were involved in the clearance operation, he said.
“At Dulsa this morning, the troops cleared the hideout of the terrorists during which they neutralized 6 Boko Haram terrorists, recovered 1 Light Machine Gun, 2 Rocket Propelled Grenade Tubes and 1 Extra Anti-Aircraft Gun Barrel. The troops also encountered Boko Haram terrorists camp at Buk where they were engaged by the terrorists,” he said.
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Four persons were killed in Cameroon on Tuesday morning, including the three Boko Haram suicide bombers who launched attacks in the country’s far north.
The attacks took place in a locality called Double about 20 kilometres from the district of Mora in Cameroon’s far north.
L’Oeil due Sahel said the three suicide bombers were killed by their own explosives while a civilian also died in the blast. Seven persons were injured.
Meanwhile in neigbouring Nigeria, one person was killed and a suicide bomber was bombed to death by his/her own explosives.
That attack took place also on Tuesday morning in Dalori, an outskirt of Maiduguri.
Reports said it was not too far from the University of Maiduguri where a recent attack killed a University professor and several other persons.
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A man was killed on Monday morning in Cameroon and several others injured following an attack by Boko Haram, a newspaper has reported.
L’Oeil du Sahel newspaper said three persons were injured when Boko Haram terrorists attacked the locality of Ouro-Moussa Kambo in the district of Fotokol in the country’s far north. Fokotol is located not far from the border with Nigeria.
The attack took place at 3 o’clock in the morning, the newspaper added.
Boko Haram has killed many people in recent weeks in Cameroon and Nigeria as it tries to regain lost territories. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari declared last December after the sect’s headquarters in the Sambisa forest fell, that Boko Haram had been defeated.
But the threats remain and many people are being killed via suicide and gun attacks. Last week, a Cameroonian army General, a Colonel and two others died in a helicopter crash in the war zone.
The government said it was an accident but an investigation has been opened.
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On 2 and 7 January 2017, the Cameroonian army surrounded again the town of Ngoshe, one of the strongholds of the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria, the Cameroonian Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma, revealed during a press conference organised this past 10 January.
According to this government member, this operation again resulted in important losses for the Boko Haram Islamists. We learned that their bomb manufacturing workshops were destroyed, and 150 Nigerian hostages held in captivity for months were freed by the Cameroonian defence forces, who unfortunately lost three soldiers during the clashes.
This is the 2nd time that the Cameroonian army launches a major attack on the Nigerian town of Ngoshe, where a Boko Haram command base was located at the time. Indeed, in February 2016, during the “Arrow Five” operation, Cameroonian soldiers neutralised 162 Boko Haram terrorists in this town and destroyed four bomb factories.
The Cameroonian defence forces then lost two officers. They were Lieutenant-Colonel Kwene Ekwele Beltus Honoré, 39 years, and Captain Pipwoh Yari Emmanuel, 31.
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Two Cameroonian soldiers (BIR) were killed yesterday in heavy fighting with a large group of Boko Haram fighters in the Iyawa Mountains in neighbouring Nigeria.
Cameroon has been engaged in heavy fighting with Boko Haram insurgents for the last two years.The terrorist group has staged more than 500 attacks and incursions, and around fifty suicide bomb attacks in Cameroon, making it the second most targeted country after Nigeria. According to Cameroonian soldiers, they fought fourteen fierce battles in Kolofata, Amchidé, Fotokol and Bargaram in 2014 and 2015 against sometimes hundreds and even up to a thousand heavily equipped Boko Haram fighters from mainly Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.
In total, in two and a half years the insurgents have killed at least 1,300 civilians, 120 soldiers and abducted an estimated thousand people in Cameroon.
They have burned down hundreds of schools and businesses and forced thousands to flee. Today, there are over 190,000 internally displaced Cameroonians in the Far North and around 65,000 refugees from neighbouring Nigeria, according to OCHA figures.
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