The brutal terrorist group Boko Haram, best known for kidnapping over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, has abducted the wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali and her maid.
The Sunday attack took place at Ali’s home in the northern Cameroon town of Kolofata, located near the country’s Nigerian border. In addition to kidnapping the vice prime minister’s wife, the militant group also kidnapped a local religious leader, Kolofata Mayor Seini Boukar Lamine, and five members of his family. Three others were killed in the ambush.
Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali
Meanwhile, a Boko Haram bomb killed five people as they left a church in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday too. The weekend ambush and kidnapping is the third Boko Haram attack in Cameroon since July 25. At least four soldiers were killed in the two previous attacks. In a separate incident, a female suicide bomber tried to attack police officers on the street. She killed herself, but only wounded two of officers.
According to the BBC, Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, and Niger recently formed “a 2,800-strong regional force” to combat the Islamic extremist group.
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