CAMEROON ’ S army has killed 27 members of terrorist group , Boko
Haram , near a northern town , state
radio said on Wednesday .
In a report quoted by Reuters , the Boko Haram fighters were reported to have crossed Nigeria’ s border into Cameroon earlier this week after attacking a military base and police station in Borno , North - East Nigeria. The attack was said to have apparently sent some 480 Nigerian troops retreating across the frontier .
“ Cameroon soldiers have killed 27
Boko Haram members during an
attack in a locality near Fotokol in the far - north , ’’ state radio /CRTV said . It added that the death occurred on
Monday and Tuesday, but there was
no word on any Cameroonian
casualty .
A Cameroonian soldier in the region
said the militants had been pushed
back into Nigeria, with calm returning to the area on Wednesday .
In recent weeks, Boko Haram, which
was seeking to carve out a de facto
Islamic state in northern Nigeria,
stepped up attacks in Cameroon.
It forced the central African country
to increase deployments along its
jungle border, but Cameron had not
always been successful in fending off Boko Haram raids .
Last month ,
President Paul Biya, dismissed two
senior army officers, following attacks in which not fewer than seven people
were killed and the wife of the vice
prime minister was kidnapped .
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