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Cameroon Army ‘kills 40 Boko Haram Fighters’ by Solutioncrib: 1:54am On Sep 03, 2014
Cameroon's army claimed on Tuesday to have killed more than 40 Boko Haram fighters who tried to storm a strategic border crossing from
Nigeria.

Heavily armed fighters "attempted to
cross the bridge at Fotokol" in the
extreme north of the country and opened fire on Cameroonian soldiers, the ministry of defence told state radio.
"Cameroon defence forces energetically reacted to this assault which lasted three hours," the ministry said, adding that one soldier was wounded by mortar shrapnel.
There was no independent confirmation of the battle.

Gamboru Ngala, the Nigerian town on the other side of the bridge, fell to the Islamist extremists last week after they reportedly overran the Nigerian garrison there.
For several days people living in towns and villages in northeast Nigeria recently captured by Boko Haram have been fleeing towards Cameroon to escape the militants.

The extremists, who have waged a bloody insurgency for five years in northern Nigeria, seem to have changed tactics in recent months, going from spectacular kidnappings, massacres and suicide attacks to attempting to conquer territory.

Cameroon's Defence Ministry said that
246 Nigerian soldiers and customs
officials who had fled Gamboru Ngala into Cameroon to escape the Boko Haram offensive "have left the Fotokol area under military escort" to rejoin their units in Banki in Nigeria.

Several hundred Nigerian soldiers
abandoned border posts further to the south along the long and isolated border last week in face of the militants' advance, military sources said.

The Nigerian army denied its troops had fled into Cameroon, instead calling the retreat a "tactical manoeuvre".

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Re: Cameroon Army ‘kills 40 Boko Haram Fighters’ by drss(m): 1:57am On Sep 03, 2014
Naija soldier go finish Boko terrorist.
Cameroon dey try small
Anyway, GEJ till 2019 grin

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Re: Cameroon Army ‘kills 40 Boko Haram Fighters’ by Dreal1247: 2:31am On Sep 03, 2014
Their days are already numbered.

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Re: Cameroon Army ‘kills 40 Boko Haram Fighters’ by Plus10(m): 2:42am On Sep 03, 2014
This report clearly shows that those guys are actually facing stiff resistance by our Military in Bama...maybe in their attempt to flee the scene to Cameroon's border town was when they encountered the Cameroonian's Soldiers.

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Re: Cameroon Army ‘kills 40 Boko Haram Fighters’ by poiZon: 7:52am On Sep 03, 2014
nobody go ask of pinshures o, but if na naija army talk am dem fools go shout pictures or.........

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