Two killed, village burnt in Boko Haram attack

Two people, including a 3-year-old girl, were killed and more than 30 houses burned during an alleged attack by Boko Haram in the night from Wednesday to Thursday in northern Cameroon on the border with Nigeria, said community sources.

After entering on foot in Cameroon, a group of suspected fighters of the Nigerian Islamic sect stormed Nigué, a village on the outskirts of the city of Fotokol where a suicide bomber killed 10 people on Saturday, including four older children between the ages of 2 to 9 years old and two other members of the family of the traditional chief, said these sources.

The attack took place around midnight (23H GMT). The reports revealed the death of a young Fulani herder, and “torched three isolated rooms,” said Ousseini Abounassi, vice president of Fotokol vigilance committee, joined by Xinhua.

Subsequently, the same group landed at Woromari, neighboring town, killing a 3-year-old girl during a second successive attack where two people were wounded, including a woman and child, “33 houses and seven hangars [trade] burnt and several herd of cattle including goats, donkeys, horses, were stolen."

About one kilometer from Woromari Nigué are two locations in the Far North of Cameroon situated at the edge of a known to be porous border with neighboring Nigeria, which does not facilitate the task and defense forces Security responsible for securing.

This is what justifies, explained the security sources, the lack of immediate reaction to two attacks on the dawn of Wednesday.