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A screengrab taken on August 24, 2014 from a
video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained
by AFP shows alleged members of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko
Haram at an undisclosed location. AFP PHOTO
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Cameroon's army has attacked the
Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, shelling one of their camps across the
border and killing "many" fighters, a security official said on
Thursday.
The source said the army had shelled
the camp on Wednesday evening, two days after the jihadist group had seized
control of the town of Gamboru Ngala on the border with Cameroon, according to monitored reports by GRAPHITTI NEWS & DAILY NATION.
"It was tanks stationed on the
frontier at Fotokol (on Cameroon's side of the border) that shelled the camp on
the other side," the source said on condition of anonymity.
"Seen from Fotokol this
morning, Gamboru looks empty and smells of death. Nobody knows how many Boko
Haram members were killed, but it is obvious that many were," he added.
The shelling was confirmed by a
local police officer.
"These were abandoned houses
that they have occupied since they entered Gamboru. We think they still control
the town, because there are many of them and they didn't all gather in the same
place," he said.
Fotokol had returned to calm by
Wednesday following days of panic as residents and Nigerian security forces
fled there to escape the Boko Haram attack on Gamboru.
Boko Haram has faced minimal
resistance from the military as it has stepped up attacks across northeast
Nigeria, where it wants to create a hardline Islamic state.
After clashes in Gamboru Ngala, Nigeria's army
dismissed suggestions that the soldiers had fled and instead said they had been
"charging through the borders in a tactical manouevre" and found
themselves on Cameroonian soil.
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