Cameroon troops killed
around 100 Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria, freed almost 900 hostages
and seized Islamic State (IS) flags last week, the defence ministry said
Wednesday.
“A
special clean-up operation from November 26 to 28” against Boko Haram fighters
in the border area with Nigeria “neutralised more than 100 jihadists”, Defence
Minister Joseph Beti Assomo said in a statement broadcast on national radio.
The
sweep enabled troops “to release almost 900 hostages, seize a large stock of
arms and munitions as well as black-and-white Islamic State flags”, the
statement added, without providing details on the identities of those freed.
No
independent confirmation of the statement was immediately available from the
region, which is unaccessible to the media.
Some
security sources reached by telephone confirmed that the raid took place but
were unable to confirm the figures released in the government statement.
-Guardian News
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