Boko Haram Gunmen Kill Chinese Worker, Soldier in Cameroon
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON — The Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram has attacked Waza, in Cameroon's Far North Region, kidnapping 10 Chinese engineers and killing one Cameroonian soldier. The French news agency AFP reported that a Chinese worker was also killed by the gunmen.
The attack came shortly before the start of Saturday's summit talks on Boko Haram in Paris, where five heads of state are meeting to map out strategies to fight the militant group.
According to reports, an estimated 200 Boko Haram members attacked the Cameroonian locality of Waza, located only 15 kilometers from Nigeria's Borno State, the base of the violent Islamist group. Djibrilla Toukour, a Waza resident, told VOA that men arrived in a convoy of about 15 vehicles around midnight.