KABUL: (Middle East Press) Boko Haram militants have abducted 50 children among some 80 people in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon.
Cameroon’s Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary confirmed that three people were also killed in the Sunday attack, which targeted several villages including Mabass along the border with Nigeria.
A senior army officer said “According to our initial information, around 30 adults, most of them herders, and 50 young girls and boys aged between 10 and 15 years were abducted,”
“They put almost 80 houses on fire” he added.
The abductions came a few days after Amnesty International released satellite images of the group’s assault on two towns in northern Nigeria.