Kerawa: 9 people decapitated, more than 20 abducted

At least nine people were decapitated and more than twenty others abducted during an alleged Boko Haram attack in Kerawa on Thursday night in the Far North region of Cameroon where a series of four separate attacks had already taken place the previous day, security sources reported.

Forty suspected armed jihadists on motorbikes and horseback raided the village near the Nigerian border where they violently attacked for about two hours, between 4:00 p.m. ET 6:00 p.m. (1500 and 1700 GMT) without any resistance because of the late arrival of the defense and security forces at the scene, according to Community sources.

Apart from more than two dozen people kidnapped, the casulaties from the attack was "nine people slaughtered, including two girls, four women and three older men, who refused to be move. It is unimaginable the attack took place in broad daylight and the assailants walked away towards the Nigerian territory, undisturbed, having also torched more than two dozen straw huts," testified one of the sources contacted by Xinhua.

The information was confirmed by informal sources within the defense forces and Cameroonian security who find themselves on different fronts following the resurgence of armed attacks by Boko Haram in this part the country, known for its porous borders.

On the previous day, the troops whose numbers have increased with the current operationalization of the Joint Multinational Force of the Lake Chad Basin (LCBC) dedicated to this fight successfully repelled a group of suspected fighters of the terrorist group to Kolofata, another locality in the Far North, where a dozen people were killed in a double suicide bombing in mid-September.

This is the opposite of the attack Doulo where about nine died in the same night. Among the victims were a young political activist named Ali Slimane, president of the Organization of sub-section of the youth of Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (YCPDM branch of the ruling party dedicated to the youth), and Personal Secretary of the Lamido (traditional authority) Mom Adji, himself a refugee in Mora.

At Achigachia and Gréa, there was also the killing of two and three people Wednesday night respectively. As observed most of the time, none of these attacks have been claimed, but the suspicions of the authorities and the army are directed at Boko Haram, distinguished also by suicide bombing which has increased since July in the Far North.