{"id":32519,"date":"2014-10-26T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=32519"},"modified":"2014-10-26T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T18:38:00","slug":"cameroonian-troops-kill-39-boko-haram-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/cameroonian-troops-kill-39-boko-haram-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroonian Troops Kill 39 Boko Haram Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yaound\u00e9 \u2013 Cameroonian troops killed 39 Boko Haram fighters in clashes with<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Islamists, who were carrying out three raids on Cameroon\u2019s territory,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the defence ministry said Sunday.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Friday\u2019s fighting in the far north of Cameroon near Nigeria also claimed<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">four civilian lives, the ministry said in a statement sent to AFP.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boko Haram rebels, who have been waging attacks in northern Nigeria and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">who kidnapped more than 200 school girls there in April, frequently cross<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">into neighbouring Cameroon.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their latest attack targeted the village of Glawi, \u201ckilling four Nigerian<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">refugees and wounding one Cameroonian, before being pushed back by defence<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">forces which pursued them until the borders,\u201d the ministry said, adding<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that a dozen militants were killed by troops.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another two groups of Boko Haram Islamists entered Cameroon at around the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">same time, but were \u201cimmediately intercepted and neutralised by our<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">defence forces who destroyed three 4\u00d74 vehicles equipped with machine<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">guns, killing 27 assailants,\u201d said the ministry statement.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The toll issued by the ministry has not been confirmed by independent<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sources. There was also no details on any casualties suffered by the army.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Cameroonian army regularly issues updates on the number of Boko Haram<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">fighters it has killed.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last week, it said it killed 107 Islamists during fighting that also saw<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">eight Cameroonian soldiers lose thier lives.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President Paul Biya has vowed to \u201ctotally wipe out\u201d the Islamist group,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">after 27 Chinese and Cameroonian hostages kidnapped in May and July on<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cameroon\u2019s territory by suspected Boko Haram Islamists were released.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cameroon shares a border of more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) with<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigeria, where Boko Haram has been waging a bloody insurgency since 2009<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in which 10,000 people have died.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaound\u00e9 \u2013 Cameroonian troops killed 39 Boko Haram fighters in clashes withthe Islamists, who were carrying out three raids on Cameroon\u2019s territory,the defence ministry said Sunday.Friday\u2019s fighting in the far&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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