Mokolo: More light on the 7-year old boy who died

The unfortunate boy was crossing the road on Monday in Moloko (Far North) before being hit by the sixth car of the motorcade of Samantha Power.

We now know a little more about the accident on Monday, April 18, 2016, in the Far North of Cameroon within the framework of the visit to Cameroon of the ambassador of the United States to the UN, Samantha Power. Samantha Power, her delegation and journalists, were going to meet refugees and displaced persons because of exactions of the terrorist group Boko Haram.

According to Associated Press, the victim is a boy aged 7. He was hit by the convoy of Ms. Power at Moloko, located twenty kilometers east of the Nigerian border, “in an area affected by Boko Haram.”

The boy was hit hard by the sixth car of the motorcade, an armored Jeep driven by a Cameroonian driver, and moving over 100Km/h, at the moment when he wanted to run across the road. “A helicopter of the Cameroonian army that accompanied the convoy of the US Ambassador, witnessed the scene,” we learn.

The driver of the vehicle that hit the boy was immediately stopped, but US security forces immediately asked him to keep going in this area described as “insecure,” said the US news agency precising that “an ambulance that followed the motorcade stopped to transport the injured to a hospital. The boy, whose identity was not known, died in a local hospital from his injuries. “

The ambassador of the United States to the United Nations returned to the scene of the accident a few hours later to offer condolences to the bereaved family. Samantha Power expressed “great sadness” against villagers who stood solemnly. She also wanted to mark her “pain” and her “sorrow” to the family.

The spokesman of the US Secretary of State, John Kirby, was not able to say whether financial compensation had been raised or promised to the family of the little boy.