Morning Star.png Cameroon: Troops Free 900 Boko Haram Hostages The Morning Star, London, 3 December 2015 Troops claimed a major coup against Boko Haram extremists in Cameroon yesterday, killing some 100 terrorists and freeing 900 hostages. Cameroonian Army spokesman Didier Badjeck hailed the raid on the border with Nigeria as an overwhelming success. "In the course of this operation, at least 100 members of Boko Haram were killed, he said. "Nine hundred hostages detained by Boko Haram were freed." The army is understood to have carried out the raid in co-operation with a regional task force against the terrorist group. On Tuesday night, two teenage girl suicide bombers attacked the town of Waza in Cameroon's Far North region, killing at least six people including the attackers. Governor Midjiyawa Bakary said soldiers killed a third suicide bomber before she could attack. "We have reliable information the attackers came from Nigeria," Mr Bakary said. Senior military officer Colonel Jacob Kodji said yesterday that the extremists have been using teenage suicide bombers and planting landmines. Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed on Monday by a landmine planted by militants in the village of Gangse in northern Cameroon, Col Kodji added. Boko Haram's current six-year campaign of terror and abduction against secular education and culture has killed some 20,000 people across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. The group has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (Isis), with which it shares a fundamentalist ideology. But it is questionable whether the two extremist organisations co-ordinate their actions in any way. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b308-Cameroon-Troops-free-900-hostages -in-attack-on-Boko-Haram#.Vl_AC7iGSko> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b308-Cameroon-Troops-free-900-hostages- in-attack-on-Boko-Haram#.Vl_AC7iGSko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
