Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/YAOUNDE: A Cameroon soldier was killed and another injured in an ambush by jihadists in Cameroon’s Far North, military and local sources said.
According to the AFP, the attack was carried out in the town of Ldaoussaf, a region troubled by jihadist insurgents.
Ambush killing
“An army patrol had been ambushed,” a senior army officer said, adding that a soldier had been killed and another injured. “The assailants fled with weapons.”
A local official who wished to remain anonymous confirmed the death of the soldier.
The Far North is a tongue of land between Nigeria to the west and Chad to the east.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram and its dissident branch, Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), had in recent years carried out deadly attacks against security forces and civilians in northern Cameroon and adjacent parts of Nigeria, Niger and Chad.
Boko Haram launched the insurgency in northeast Nigeria in 2009 before it spread throughout the region.
The United Nations said that more than 36,000 people had been killed mainly in Nigeria, and three million have been forced to flee their homes since the insurgency began in 2009.
