Chinese National Killed, 10 Missing After Boko Haram Attack in Cameroon.........

Date: 17-05-2014 4:19 pm (9 years ago) | Author: Tony Ladipo
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A Chinese national is dead and 10 others are feared kidnapped after an attack in northern Cameroon
carried out by Nigerian Boko Haram militants, according to local police.....




ABC News/AFP/Reuters
May 17, 2014

"Boko Haram Islamists attacked a camp [of road workers]," a local police chief said on condition of anonymity.

"A Chinese [person] was killed. Ten Chinese cannot be found since the attack. We think they have probably been kidnapped."

The incident began when power was cut in the evening. A five-hour gunfight followed, a guard at the Waza National Park told Reuters.
"Some of us decided to hide in the forest with the animals," the guard said, requesting anonymity.

The governor of far north region, Augustine Fonka Awa, said he believed Boko Haram had carried out the attack.

The Islamist group kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school on the Nigerian side of the border last month Nigerian troops backed by foreign units are searching the area around the forest for them.

Mr Awa said authorities are investigating reports that at least one Cameroon soldier was killed and 10 people were abducted.

International efforts to form strategy against Islamist group
The cross-border attack comes as Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan was in Paris for a meeting with the leaders of neighbouring states on forging a regional strategy against the Islamist group.

A source close to the Chinese embassy in Yaounde spoke of 10 missing and one wounded but would not confirm or deny whether one Chinese worker had been killed.

"Cameroonian soldiers retaliated and the fighting lasted until 3:00am (local time)," the officer said.

"The Boko Haram militants were heavily armed, they came in five vehicles," an official in Waza, near the site of the attack, told AFP.

He said the camp where the Chinese road workers stayed was usually guarded by soldiers from Cameroon's elite Rapid Intervention Battalion.

"Their numbers were thinner these past few days because many of them had gone down to Yaounde," for the traditional military parade marking National Day on May 20, the official said.

The police officer said the militants also attacked the police post in Waza and raided its armoury.

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua quoted Chinese officials as saying one person was injured. The Chinese embassy suspended visits to the area.

"For companies operating in the northern part of Cameroon in particular, they should instantly start security contingency plans," the embassy said in a statement.
At least two Chinese enterprises operate in the region. Xinhua said an engineering unit of state-run construction company Sinohydro, which is repairing roads, operated the camp. Yan Chang Logone Development Holding Company, a subsidiary of China's Yanchang Petroleum, is exploring for oil.

Boko Haram has staged several attacks in northern Cameroon during its five-year fight to set up an Islamist state. Last month, it attacked a police post killing two people. The rebels also kidnapped a French family in February 2013.

Nigerian authorities say Cameroon has not done enough to secure its border because Boko Haram has been using the sparsely populated far north region as a transit route for weapons and as a rear base for attacks in north-eastern Nigeria.

Cameroon said in March it would send 700 soldiers to its north-eastern border as part of regional efforts to tackle the armed group.


Posted: at 17-05-2014 04:19 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
- papadip at 17-05-2014 05:03 PM (9 years ago)
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Boko Haram is no doubt a regional power
….personally I guess it is being funded by a western power to destabilize Nigeria.

How did they acquire their weapons, vehicles, communications and so on?
The supply channels should be investigated by the world.
Posted: at 17-05-2014 05:03 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- paulohking at 17-05-2014 06:15 PM (9 years ago)
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hmmmmmm
Posted: at 17-05-2014 06:15 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- ken222 at 17-05-2014 06:19 PM (9 years ago)
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Why the attack? do they also want to Islamize the Cameroonians  
Posted: at 17-05-2014 06:19 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Topsylucas at 17-05-2014 06:49 PM (9 years ago)
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Are boko bastard spirits? I wonder why its still difficult 2 capture these nuisance.
Posted: at 17-05-2014 06:49 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- liljerome at 17-05-2014 06:51 PM (9 years ago)
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Na wa o Lips Sealed
Posted: at 17-05-2014 06:51 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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- beneno at 17-05-2014 07:41 PM (9 years ago)
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 Roll Eyes  Roll Eyes  Roll Eyes  Roll Eyes
Posted: at 17-05-2014 07:41 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- echeeche at 17-05-2014 07:59 PM (9 years ago)
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It is a sad story indeed,this world is coming to an end everybody should sit up,for the time of the antichrist is at  hand,Jesus is Lord
Posted: at 17-05-2014 07:59 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- ken10000 at 17-05-2014 08:14 PM (9 years ago)
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Bitter!! Nigéria ..
Posted: at 17-05-2014 08:14 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- nmakwe at 17-05-2014 08:15 PM (9 years ago)
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i think   is all islamic nation s that  doing this.
Posted: at 17-05-2014 08:15 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- mos_def at 17-05-2014 08:49 PM (9 years ago)
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Africa must unite and fight terrorism as 1 entity. Bomb blasts in Kenya, Cameroon, Benin,here,there,up,down wtf is going on?
Posted: at 17-05-2014 08:49 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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- Larry28 at 17-05-2014 08:51 PM (9 years ago)
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There days are numberd
Posted: at 17-05-2014 08:51 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- daveobahon at 17-05-2014 09:01 PM (9 years ago)
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Boko wnts 2 islamize a lot of countries not jst 9ja
Posted: at 17-05-2014 09:01 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- osamabinladin at 17-05-2014 09:26 PM (9 years ago)
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Boko people everywhere ! Sad
Posted: at 17-05-2014 09:26 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- tankNZ at 17-05-2014 11:21 PM (9 years ago)
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sad Sad
Posted: at 17-05-2014 11:21 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- okilo101 at 17-05-2014 11:26 PM (9 years ago)
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They re cowards
Posted: at 17-05-2014 11:26 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- steveoneal at 17-05-2014 11:37 PM (9 years ago)
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even while they were still being searched for by international communities, these monster still had the gut to carry out such attack,, these people don swallow devil ooooo
Posted: at 17-05-2014 11:37 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- steveoneal at 17-05-2014 11:38 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: steveoneal on 17-05-2014 11:37 PM
even while they were still being searched for by international communities, these monster still had the gut to carry out such attack,, these people don swallow devil ooooo
even while they were still being searched for by international communities, these monsters still had the gut to carry out such attack,, these people don swallow devil ooooo
Posted: at 17-05-2014 11:38 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- chicco77 at 18-05-2014 12:07 AM (9 years ago)
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 Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
Posted: at 18-05-2014 12:07 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- dareper at 18-05-2014 12:09 AM (9 years ago)
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Na wa o
Posted: at 18-05-2014 12:09 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
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