Barely 48 hours after Cameroon army
killed 27 Boko Haram militants during an
attack in a locality near Fotokol in the
country’s far-north, the army has again
attacked the insurgents, shelling one of
their camps across the border and killing
“many” fighters, a security official said
yesterday.
The source, who spoke to AFP, said the
army had shelled the camp on
Wednesday evening, two days after the
jihadist group had seized control of the
town of Gamboru Ngala on the border
with Cameroon. “It was tanks stationed
on the frontier at Fotokol (on
Cameroon’s side of the border) that
shelled the camp on the other side,” the
source said on condition of anonymity.
“Seen from Fotokol this morning,
Gamboru looks empty and smells of
death,” he added. “Nobody knows how
many Boko Haram members were killed,
but it is obvious that many were.” The
shelling was confirmed by a local police
officer.
“These were abandoned houses that
they have occupied since they entered
Gamboru. We think they still control the
town, because there are many of them
and they didn’t all gather in the same
place,” he said.
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