News: Boko Haram kills three people and kidnapped 60 others inNorthern Cameroon

Three people were killed Sunday in an attack by suspected
Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram in Tourou, a place in the
north of Cameroon. Around 60 children were abducted and
80 houses were burned in the attack, an army source
revealed on Sunday.
The Islamist militants “burst into two villages in the Tourou
area… They torched houses and left with around 60 people.
Most of them were women and children,” a police officer
told AFP.
He said the cross-border attack had “left some people
dead” without giving an exact toll, adding that the
Cameroon army had “launched an operation” in the wake of
the assault.
The kidnapping was the biggest in Cameroon by the
Islamists who have staged a series of attacks in the country
in recent months and escalated their bloody insurgency in
their stronghold in northeastern Nigeria.
The assault was launched after neighbouring Chad
deployed troops to combat Boko Haram both in Cameroon
and Nigeria.
In Nigeria the Chadian troops are seeking to recapture the
strategic city of Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad, which
straddles the borders of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon
and which fell to the Islamists early this month.
Many say the assault on Baga could be Boko Haram’s
deadliest. Satellite pictures released by Amnesty and
Human Rights Watch showed widespread destruction with
around 3,700 buildings in Baga and nearby Doron Baga
damaged or destroyed.
Amnesty says as many as 2,000 civilians may have been
massacred, but Nigeria’s army objected to the
“sensational” claims and said that the death toll in Baga
was about 150.
Some 400 Chadian army vehicles arrived in the
Cameroonian border town of Kousseri on Saturday, and
Chadian President Idriss Deby said they were “operational”
as of Sunday.
Boko Haram last Monday launched an offensive against a
Cameroonian military base in Kolofata, also in the far north
of the country, in which 143 “terrorists” and one
Cameroonian soldier were killed, according to Cameroon.
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