Cameroon’s army has freed 24 hostages kidnapped during a
cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters, government officials said
n their latest cross-border raid on Sunday, Boko Haram fighters
seized at least 80 people in northern Cameroon, most of them women and children. Continue..
Cameroon Information Minister, Issa Tchiroma Bakari, told Al Jazeera that the Cameroon army was able to free
at least 24 of the hostages yesterday.
”They were freed as defence forces pursued the attackers who were heading
back to Nigeria,” defence ministry spokesman, Colonel Didier Badjeck said.
The attack on Sunday occurred in the village of Mabass, in the
Far North region, Bakary said, adding that 80 houses were destroyed.
Bakary said:“We are dealing with barbaric people, lawless
people. Nothing can prevent them from assassinating.”
The raid came a day after neighbouring Chad deployed troops to combat Boko Haram in Cameroon and
Nigeria, as part of a regional bid to combat the group.
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