Five killed in an attack and several Islamists arrested in the Far North

Five people were killed after an attack attributed to Boko Haram, in the Cameroonian villages of Kidji and Talakachi on Monday night, a security source on detachment in the Far North (in the fight against Boko Haram), informed Koaci.

"The incidents took place in Kidji and Talakachi villages, border with Nigeria, between Minday night and Tuesday dawn. The armed assailants arrived aboard their bikes and attacked the villages. People abandoned their homes and the suspected Boko Haram men, took herds of cattle and set fire on the stalls," a security source reported this morning.

Other sources contacted by Koaci, added that 6 Islamists were also arrested after the attack the army launched against the suspected terrorists.

For several weeks, the country has faced an upsurge in attacks attributed to the Nigerian sect. In addition to these attacks, there have been suicide bombings, not yet claimed by Boko Haram, but attributed to the sect.

As a result of these attacks, more than 43 700 Nigerians have fled their territory to take refuge in Minawao, Cameroon. At the domestic level, the country recorded nearly 100,000 internally displaced persons fleeing Islamist atrocities. Six suicide attacks have been carried out in the country in 2 months. The last dated September 5 in Kerawa (Far North Cameroon), with 41 dead and 145 injured.

The member States of the Commission of the basin of Lake Chad and Benin (Cblt), have set up joint Multinational Force (MMF), in which they hired 8 700 men to combat and eradicate Boko Haram.

The objective of the JMF is to secure the area of Lake Chad, victim of the exactions of the sect.