Members of the jihadist organization were also killed, although it is not clear how many
Five soldiers and a civilian were killed Monday in a Boko Haram attack in the far north of Cameroon , where jihadists have escalated their killing spree, according to a Defense Ministry statement cited by public radio on Tuesday.
On Monday night, a “horde of heavily armed Boko Haram terrorists, driven by light regular vehicles, attacked an administration center (…) in the Zige community,” according to the statement, which states that five soldiers and one civilian were killed. their lives.
Three other soldiers and a civilian were injured in the attack, a few kilometers from the border with Nigeria , the cradle of Boko Haram, according to the Ministry of Defense. Members of the jihadist organization were also killed, although the press release does not specify how many.
“The army remains vigilant throughout the far north and along the border to prevent possible new attacks on the Boko Haram terrorist highland”, which “seems to have recovered” after being “reorganized” by organizational and ideological watchtower, always according to the ministry.
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The far north of Cameroon, which borders Nigeria, is often the scene of attacks by the extremist organization born in northeastern Nigeria.
Members of Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa (IKDA), an organization that emerged when the former split, have stepped up deadly attacks on security forces and civilians in Cameroon in recent years, as in the other three countries in the region. Nigeria, Niger and Chad.
They often abduct civilians, especially women and children.
On Saturday, eight Cameroonian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack in Sangme, a few dozen kilometers from the border with Nigeria.
The Boko Haram insurgency erupted in northeastern Nigeria in 2009, before spreading to neighboring states. More than 36,000 people , mostly in Nigeria, have been killed and another 3 million have been forced to flee their homes , according to UN estimates.
In 2016, the organization split in the faction under the command of the historic leader Aboubakar Seca and a second calling itself IKDA and swears allegiance to the Islamic State.
Boko Haram confirmed in mid-June the death of its historic leader, Abubakar Sekau, in a battle with IKDA members.
