Cameroon’s Military Says It Has Freed 900 Hostages From Boko Haram

Cameroonian forces got backing from the regional anti-Boko Haram task force in the operation.

Army spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck said the Cameroon military also freed 900 people held hostage by Boko Haram.

The defense ministry says soldiers killed the militants and rescued the hostages during an operation last week along the Cameroon-Nigeria boundary.

Because of restrictions to media and independent observers, the figures provided by the military can not be independently verified.

Since July, Cameroon’s far northern region has been regularly targeted by suicide bombers believed to be working with Boko Haram.

Cameroon, as well as other regional countries, has been the target of attacks by Boko Haram militants.

The terror group has expanded operations from Nigeria to Niger, Chad and Cameroon over the past year.

Musa added that said that the operation should have happened as early as July or August, when the deployment of a multi-national force was first announced.

State radio confirmed the attacks, saying the two suicide bombers were women who killed four people when they blew themselves up.

The attacks were carried out by teenage girls, a common tactic used by Boko Haram.

Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to Daesh, has waged a six-year conflict that began in northeast Nigeria but has spread to neighboring countries.

It will be recalled that on the night of Tuesday, December 1, suspected Boko Haram militants detonated two suicide bombs in north Cameroon, where suicide bombings have become rampant.