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Grenade attack on Cameroon camp kills 13

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Published: 09:01, 3 August 2020   Update: 03:01, 3 August 2020
Grenade attack on Cameroon camp kills 13

Fighters from the Boko Haram armed group have killed at least 13 people in an attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon, an official has said.

"The toll is currently 13 dead; it is clear that it was Boko Haram that was responsible," local mayor Mahamat Chetima Abba told a news agency on Sunday following the overnight attack on the Nguetchewe camp.

At least six have been wounded in the attack, according to reports citing local sources.

The assailants in the early hours of Sunday threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people inside the camp, home to 800 people, in the village of Nguetchewe, Medjeweh Boukar, district mayor, told the news agency.

The village is located in the Mozogo district, close to the Nigerian border in the Far North region.

Another local politician, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the area where the attack took place as one in which people would "hide" from Boko Haram attacks.

The armed group, formed in northeastern Nigeria in 2009, has regularly launched attacks there since 2014, staging small-scale raids aimed at stealing livestock and food.
 

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