North: Fire outbreak, blamed on Boko Haram

A fire outbreak attributed to the Islamist sect Boko Haram has blown some 65 huts in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in the Cameroonian Wawouli border town with Nigeria, APA learns from security sources.

Until Wednesday morning, there was no reported death as a result of this suspected terrorist attack which led to an ongoing search operation by the army.

The day before, a few kilometers from Wawoudi, a Cameroonian soldier was killed when a public transport vehicle in which he was travelling and which was bound for Koumche in Nigeria, exploded after hitting a landmine.
This explosion, we learn again, also caused four wounded among the men in uniform who were manifestly trying to join their comrades in arms at Koumche as they are in full operation against the jihadist movement in synergy with Nigerian forces.

This new increase in insecurity happened while the Nigerian minister of home affairs, Abdulrahman Bello Bandazau ended a two-day working visit to Cameroon in which he said that “Boko Haram followers are not normal citizens. Besides, soon, we will not talk about them anymore.”

These assurances seem, however, to be contradicted by the situation on the ground, particularly on the Cameroonian side where practically a day goes by without an often deadly terrorist incursion being reported.

As a reminder and according to government statistics, 1,098 civilians, 67 soldiers and three policemen were killed in Cameroon between 2013 and early 2016 during 315 raids, 12 landmine accidents and 32 Boko Haram suicide bombers in the far north.