5 Boko Haram elements killed by the army

Five Boko Haram members were killed during the violent fight that erupted between a detachment of the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) and elements of the terrorist sect on the night of July 14, 2015.

According to our sources, the Cameroonian military stationed at Kerawa fell into an ambush near the Ndaba Koura village, border of the Goudeli Nigerian village.

However, Boko Haram elements, in heavily armed vehicles and motorcycles, met a strong opposition from the Cameroonian army which had a casualty of a warrant officer and the destruction of a military vehicle.

The sect however abandoned three bodies, three motorcycles, four bicycles and their pickup truck was completely destroyed.

"Boko Haram used to carry the bodies of it militants when they escape which leaves us with the insight that we have a very good figure. However, it is difficult to give an actual estimation,” says an officer in the area.

They acknowledged their lose despite the violent retaliation in addition to the serious damage to the military vehicle, a weapon, four light weapons and four bullet-proof vests. Many of the attackers returned to Nigeria. At the same time in Zeleved, members of Boko Haram in motorcycles tried to infiltrate the village in the District of Mayo-Moskota which has already been severely affected by this conflict.

Two of them were killed and their weapons recovered by the army. The others they fled to Nigeria. In less than a week, Boko Haram conducted operations in the three administrative units most affected by its attacks: double suicide bombing in Fotokol (Logone and Chari), Ndaba ambush (Mayo-Sava) and Zeleved (Mayo-Tsanaga) incursion.

"The Nigerian Army has still not been able to reduce the scope of Boko Haram in Borno State, border in the region of the far North. As long as this effort is not made, either by the Nigerian army or any other force, pressure will be always be on the Cameroon defensive positions,” said a high-ranking army.