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UPDATE 1-Cameroon says frees 900 Boko Haram hostages in military operation

Published 2015-12-02, 08:20 a/m
© Reuters. UPDATE 1-Cameroon says frees 900 Boko Haram hostages in military operation

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YAOUNDE, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Cameroon's army, backed up by a
regional task force, has killed at least 100 members of the
militant Islamist Boko Haram group and freed 900 people it had
held hostage, the west African country's army and defence
ministry said on Wednesday.
Cameroon is part of an 8,700-strong regional task force also
comprising troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Benin that aims
to destroy Boko Haram, which though based mainly in Nigeria has
become a major threat to wider regional security.
Army spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck said troops had
conducted a sweep operation between November 26-28 along
Cameroon's long border with its western neighbour Nigeria.
Both Badjeck and the defence ministry, which gave a brief
statement on state television, cited the same figures of
militant deaths and the number of people freed.
Other military sources in Cameroon confirmed that a military
operation had taken place, although one expressed surprise at
its scale.
It was not immediately clear where the clashes with the
militants had taken place or where Boko Haram's captives had
been held. It was also not known whether those freed included
any of the more than 200 schoolgirls seized by the militants in
their dormitories in Chibok, Nigeria last year.
Cameroon has suffered regular cross-border attacks in its
Far North Region in recent weeks, including twin suicide blasts
overnight that killed at least three people. ID:nL8N13R1AJ
Suicide bombings, often carried out by young women recruited
by the militant group in Nigeria, are becoming almost daily
occurrences in the Far North region.

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