Boko Haram militants seize Cameroon vice-PM’s wife
Vice-prime minister Amadou Ali's was evacuated by bodyguards from the town of Kolofata, where the militants struck, the military says
Yaounde, Cameroon: Boko Haram militants attacked Kolofata, a town in Cameroon’s Far North Region near Nigeria, on Sunday and seized several people including the wife of Cameroon’s vice-prime minister Amadou Ali, a military commander in the region said.
“The situation is very critical here now, and as I am talking to you the Boko Haram elements are still in Kolofata town in a clash with our soldiers," said Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second commander of Cameroon’s third inter-army military region (RMIA3) based in the regional headquarters Maroua.
“Some of them have already taken away the wife of vice-prime minister Amadou Ali and her house help while the bodyguards of the vice-prime minister have succeeded in taking him out of the town to Mora," Formekong said, adding that there could be more casualties. Reuters
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