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Cameroon Army kills ‎100 Boko Haram fighters

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Army ambush, kill two Boko Haram insurgents

At least 100 Boko Haram members met their waterloo when they were engaged in a gun battle with the Cameroon army.

The face-off also witnessed the release about 900 hostages who were freed in a Nigerian border operation according to the Cameroon Army.

Army spokesman, Colonel Didier Badjeck, said: “In the course of this operation, at least 100 members of Boko Haram were killed. Nine hundred hostages detained by Boko Haram were freed”.

The Cameroon army is understood to have carried out the operation with backing from a regional anti-Boko Haram task force.

Since it became part of an 8,700 strong regional task force aimed at defeating the extremist group with troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Benin, Cameroon has been a target for attacks.

Two bombs were detonated by suspected suicide bombers on Tuesday in the north of Cameroon, where such incident is becoming almost a daily occurence.

“There was a double suicide attack last night in Waza in the far north of Cameroon with a toll of six dead, including the three kamikazees [attackers],” Michel Oumarou, deputy prefect for Waza, said, though one source told the agency the death toll was likely higher.

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