Planted roadside bomb by Boko Haram kills CMRnian Captain

Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed on Wednesday when their vehicle ran over a roadside bomb in the Far North region, where the army is battling Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants.

Cameroonian Captain Mbene Matute Elvis and his driver died Wednesday morning when their vehicle struck the landmine on the Mora-Limani road.

Boko Haram have started using landmines and roadside bombs as the armies of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger step up the fight to contain them.

The Cameroonian officer said the explosives probably came from a stock that Boko Haram stole last May when they attacked a Chinese workers’ camp in Waza.

The insurgents kidnapped 10 Chinese citizens and seized a large amount of explosives.