Boko Haram fighters have killed at least eight people in a village in Cameroon before the intervention of military, who drove them back, killing 12 terrorists in the process.
National Helm reports that the raid occurred during the night of Wednesday, August 12 in Blame, a village in far north Cameroon.
Colonel Didier Badjeck said that the Islamist fighters slit the throat of the villagers.
‘Six villagers had their throats slit. Twelve Boko Haram members were killed. The Cameroon army drove back the attackers. A Cameroonian soldier wounded yesterday has just died”
The Cameroonian government has deployed thousands of soldiers to the boarder region of the country to combat the Boko Haram insurgency.
Meanwhile, a youth vigilante group has killed 17 Boko Haram fighters who attacked a village in Borno state, the leader of the group said the fighters attacked in the evening but were repelled.
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