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Boko Haram attacks bus along Waza-Mora road in Far North

Soldiers Boko Haram War

Fri, 2 Jan 2015 Source: cameroon-info.net

Notwithstanding heavy losses in human lives in the war against the Cameroonian army, the terrorist organization Boko Haram has not stopped its incursions on Cameroonian territory.

According to a military source in the North, the attackers of the Islamist sect of Nigerian origin caused deaths among the civilian population of Cameroon.

The attackers intercepted yesterday Thursday January 1, 2015, a bus of a travel agency full of passengers, on the Waza - Mora axis, a combat zone in the region of the far North. Against unarmed and helpless passengers, the terrorists killed and carried away their victims properties.

The bus attacked "from Kousseri, fell in an ambush around 7 p.m. laid by members of Boko Haram from Waza to Mora. Some passengers were killed on the spot, others are still missing," said Guibai Ganesan, a colleague in the northern part of Cameroon.

"Beyond the impact on the human rights so that of political, security and humanitarian, the recurrent attacks of Boko Haram have psychological and socio-economic consequences. Several schools were unable to open during the new school year in September 2014.

Moreover, tourism is stalled as economic exchanges with Nigeria and Chad," said Abdoulaye Bathily, the special representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chief regional Office of UNOCA, in a recent report to the Security Council on the critical situation in the region of the far north of Cameroon.

Source: cameroon-info.net