Boko Haram gunmen kidnap 3-year-old girl

Gunmen, suspected to be members of Boko Haram, abducted a 3-year-old girl after killing nearly a dozen people and burnt over a hundred houses on Saturday night at Tika village (Northern Cameroon) near the border with Nigeria; military sources informed us on Saturday.

During the attack which occurred around 9:00 p.m. (20H00 GMT), the suspected Islamists attacked the inhabitants of this small village in the district of Hile Hifa, putting fire on their houses where “over a hundred” were burnt, the military sources reported.

“At the time of the attack, the girl was kidnaped while asleep. Her parents, like other inhabitants, fled their straw-like houses to escape the violence, taking different directions. This was after they realized that they had abandoned their child,” detailed one of the detailed military sources contacted by Xinhua.

Eight people of Tika were also found dead after the Islamist incursion. They were mostly men, one of whom was slain; a criminal method that Boko Haram generally used to implement their mass killings. A woman was also among the victims, said another military source.

Moreover, there were many who were seriously injured and three vehicles were burnt. The injured were rushed to the hospital. In shock, the people of Tika are in mourning. A security detachment deployed in the locality could not find traces of the attackers who immediately fled after the attack. “They arrived in the Lake Chad islands aboard canoes,” said a military source.