Boko Haram insurgents attacked a Cameroon
military camp near the town of Waza in the
north of the country on Monday, wounding
several soldiers, an army spokesman said.
Chad, Niger and Cameroon have begun a joint
offensive against Boko Haram militants who
have killed thousands of people in a bid to
carve out an Islamist emirate in northern
Nigeria, and have increasingly staged raids
across nearby borders.
“The wounded are being evacuated. The
insurgents have been stopped. An APC
(armoured personnel carrier) was taken from
them and several of them were killed,” a
Cameroonian military officer told journalists
in Maroua, adding the incident was
continuing.
Earlier this month, Boko Haram fighters
killed more than 100 people in the northern
Cameroon town of Fotokol, including
residents inside their homes and a mosque, a
local political leader said.