27, August 2020
5 killed in French Cameroun road accident 0
A road accident in Cameroon’s Far North region killed five people and injured several others on Thursday, according to local police.
The accident occurred Thursday morning in the Bidzar locality along the National Road Number One, according to the police said.
Police are still investigating circumstances that led to the tragedy but witnesses said a truck collided head-on with an overloaded-bus, killing five people, including children, on the spot.
Survivors, some of them badly injured, have been sent to hospital, said the police.
Local authorities have ordered an immediate investigation into the accident.
Source: Xinhuanet
27, August 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Unknown gunmen abduct 15 in Ekok 0
Unknown armed men burst on a beach in Cameroon’s border town of Ekok early Thursday and abducted 15 people, according to local authorities.
Witnesses said the victims, all beach workers, were working when heavily armed men held them at gunpoint and took them away to an unknown destination.
Authorities said preliminary results of an investigation indicated that some of the victims were Nigerians who regularly operate in the town that shares boundary with Nigeria.
No group has claimed responsibility for the abduction.
Ekok is located in Cameroon’s English-speaking region of Southwest that has been ravaged by a separatist conflict for four years.
Armed separatists are known to be operating in the town that also serves as their main route to Nigeria, according to security reports.
Source: Xinhuanet