Boko Haram militants have
attacked Kolofata, a town in
Cameroon’s Far North Region
near Nigeria and seized
several people including the
wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali, a military
commander in the region said. According to Reuters, the
attack took place today, the
celebration of the end of
Ramadan. “The situation is very critical
here now, and as I am talking
to you the Boko Haram
elements are still in Kolofata
town in a clash with our
soldiers,” said Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second
commander of Cameroon’s
third inter-army military
region (RMIA3) based in the
regional headquarters Maroua. “Some of them have already
taken away the wife of Vice
Prime Minister Ahmadou Ali
and her house help while the
bodyguards of the Vice Prime
Minister have succeeded in taking him out of the town to
Mora,” Formekong said, adding
that there could be more
casualties. Cameroon since it began
crackdown on the insurgents in
recent weeks has faced a
series of counter attacks by
the militants. On Friday, a
military court in the country jailed about 20 members of the
sect arrested in March for arms
trafficking.
Source p.m news