DOUALA, CAMEROON — Suspected Boko Haram militants
sprayed a village in remote Cameroon with automatic fire,
killing 15 people and kidnapping eight others in an overnight
raid near the Nigerian border, several officials said on
Friday.
The attackers burned down around 30 houses in Gakara
village, just outside the town of Kolofata, which has been a
frequent target of suicide bombings by the Islamist group.
A government source on the ground said that 15 people had
been killed, all shot dead except one who was burned alive,
while another 30 had suffered bullet wounds. The mayor of
Kolofata and a senior military source confirmed that an
attack had taken place but did not know the death toll.
Boko Haram attacks have killed more than 20,000 people
and displaced 2.7 million during the group's eight-year
insurgency to carve out an Islamic caliphate in the Lake
Chad region.
"The attack happened around midnight. The Boko Haram
assailants arrived. They set 32 houses on fire ... killed,
pillaged, and traumatized the population," said a district
official, who asked not to be named because he was not
authorized to speak.
Many people fled the village for a camp near Kolofata that
houses thousands displaced by Boko Haram violence, he
said.



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