Boko Haram terrorists attacked a village in Cameroon’s far north on Saturday night and killed at least three civilians, days after killing five persons and kidnapping 11 others in the same region, a newspaper said on Sunday, a reminder that the war against the ruthless terrorists who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March last year is far from over.
Local newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, known to reliably report Boko Haram attacks in Cameroon, said the terrorists stormed a locality called Aldjé, not far from Amchidé in Cameroon’s far north, and killed three persons.
On Thursday night, an attack around the locality of Goulouzivini about 10 kilometres from the famous park of Waza left two civilians dead. The same night, two farmers; Moussa Dawa and Oumar Kolo, were killed at Manawatchi in Kolofata also in Cameroon’s far north by Boko Haram invaders who came from the Nigerian side of the border.
On July 4, Blama Made, a trader was killed by Boko Haram at Bornori in Kolofata, following an attack by Boko Haram. At least 11 persons were left missing.
Two Saturdays ago, four brave fishermen subdued two Boko Haram members at Darak in the Lake Chad, one of the attackers armed with an AK47 rifle.
These attacks have multiplied in recent weeks, and even though large scale bombings Boko Haram used to stage have dwindled in recent months, many people continue to be killed by a group spreading terror in the region and vowing to create a caliphate around Lake Chad Basin.
In neighbouring Nigeria, a suicide bomber last week killed at least six worshippers at a mosque and five soldiers were wounded while two civilians were killed by the terrorists in another attack two days ago on Friday. The Associated Press reported that the two civilians the Nigerian Army described as a truck driver and a gunner were also soldiers.
Boko Haram has killed more than 1300 people in Cameroon since 2013 and over 25,000 in Nigeria since 2009. More two million people remain displaced and hundreds of Chibok girls kidnapped two years ago in an attack that shocked the world have not been found.
A multinational task force made up of troops from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin, has taken the fight to the militants, but it is not clear how successful they have been.