Boko Haram militants attacked Kolofata, a town in Cameroon's Far North
Region near Nigeria, on Sunday and seized several people including the
wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali, a military commander
in the region said.
"The situation is very critical here now, and as I
am talking to you the Boko Haram elements are still in Kolofata town in a
clash with our soldiers," said Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second
commander of Cameroon's third inter-army military region (RMIA3) based
in the regional headquarters Maroua.
"Some of them have already taken
away the wife of Vice Prime Minister Ahmadou Ali and her house help
while the bodyguards of the Vice Prime Minister have succeeded in taking
him out of the town to Mora," Formekong said, adding that there could
be more casualties.
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