Cameroon's army has freed 24 hostages
kidnapped during a cross-border attack by
suspected Boko Haram fighters based in
Nigeria, government officials
said.
In their latest cross-border raid on Sunday,
the Nigeria-based Boko Haram fighters seized
at least 80 people in northern Cameroon, most
of them women and children.
Cameroon Information Minister Issa Tchiroma
Bakari told Al Jazeera that the Cameroon
army was able to free at least 24 of the
hostages on Monday.
"They were freed as defence forces pursued
the attackers who were heading back to
Nigeria," defence ministry spokesman Colonel
Didier Badjeck said.
The attack on Sunday occurred in the village
of Mabass, in the Far North region, Bakary
said. He said 80 houses were destroyed.
"We are dealing with barbaric people, lawless
people," Bakary said. "Nothing can prevent
them from assassinating."
The raid came a day after neighbouring Chad
deployed troops to combat Boko Haram in
Cameroon and Nigeria, as part of a regional
bid to combat the group.
-Aljazeeara.
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