Five soldiers and a Cameroonian civilian were killed on Monday in a Boko Haram attack in the far north of Cameroon, where jihadists are increasing the atrocities, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense read Tuesday, July 27 on state radio.
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On the night of Monday to Tuesday, "
a horde of heavily armed terrorists from the Boko Haram sect, and aboard several light tactical vehicles, attacked the command post (...) located in the town of Zigué
", according to the press release read to CRTV, stating that five soldiers and one civilian were killed.
Three soldiers and a civilian were also injured in the attack, a few kilometers from the border with Nigeria, where Boko Haram appeared, according to the Defense Ministry.
Boko Haram members were killed, the statement said.
"
The troops remain on high alert throughout the Far North region and beyond the borders in order to prevent possible new assaults by the terrorist hydra Boko Haram which seems to have recovered from the internal restructuring. of its ideology,
”the statement continued.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has killed 36,000
The far north of Cameroon, very close to the Nigerian border, is regularly the scene of attacks by this extremist group from northeastern Nigeria.
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Members of Boko Haram and its dissident branch, the Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) group, in recent years have increased deadly attacks against security forces and civilians in this party in Cameroon and in neighboring regions. of the three neighboring countries, Nigeria, Niger and Chad.
They frequently abduct civilians, especially women and children.
Eight Cameroonian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on Saturday in Sagmé, in the same region of Cameroon, a few dozen kilometers from the border with Nigeria.
The Boko Haram rebellion erupted in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria before spreading to neighboring countries.
Since then, more than 36,000 people (mainly in Nigeria) have been killed, and 3 million have had to flee their homes, according to the UN.
In 2016, the group split into two branches: the faction led by its historic leader, Abubakar Shekau, and Iswap, affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group. Boko Haram confirmed in June the death of Abubakar Shekau, in fighting against Iswap.