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UPDATE 3-Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 16 in northern Cameroon

Published 02/08/2020, 11:01
Updated 02/08/2020, 18:30
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(Updates death toll)
DOUALA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Suspected militants from Islamist
group Boko Haram killed at least 16 people and wounded seven
early on Sunday in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced
people in northern Cameroon, a local official said.
The assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping
people inside the camp in the village of Nguetchewe, district
mayor Medjeweh Boukar told Reuters. The camp is home to around
800 people, he said.
The village is located close to the Nigerian border.
Boukar was informed by residents that 16 had died. A
security official earlier said 15 had died. The wounded were
taken to a nearby hospital, they said.
"The attackers arrived with a woman who carried the grenade
into the camp," Boukar said, adding that women and children were
among the dead.
Over the past month there have been twenty incursions and
attacks by suspected Islamist militants, Boukar said.
Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve out an
Islamic caliphate based in Nigeria.
The violence, which has killed an estimated 30,000 people
and displaced millions, has frequently spilled over into
neighbouring Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
In June last year, around 300 suspected Boko Haram militants
swarmed onto an island on Lake Chad in Cameroon's far north and
killed 24 people, including 16 Cameroonian soldiers stationed at
military outposts.

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