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Lake Chad attack: 'Dozens of fishermen' killed near Cameroon border
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed at least 50 people on an island on Lake Chad, bordering Cameroon and Chad, a local official told the BBC.
The militants, disguised as traders, attacked fishermen, local mayor Ali Ramat said, quoting a survivor.
The attack happened on 22 December, but news from the remote area is only just beginning to come out.
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Mr Ramat, the mayor of Darak in Cameroon's Far North Region, told the BBC that among those killed were at least 20 Cameroonians. An unknown number of people are still unaccounted for, he said.
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In late December, local community members sent a search party to the area of the attack and found dead bodies floating in the water, the BBC's Killian Chimtom in Cameroon reports.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-50987123
The militants, disguised as traders, attacked fishermen, local mayor Ali Ramat said, quoting a survivor.
The attack happened on 22 December, but news from the remote area is only just beginning to come out.
...
Mr Ramat, the mayor of Darak in Cameroon's Far North Region, told the BBC that among those killed were at least 20 Cameroonians. An unknown number of people are still unaccounted for, he said.
...
In late December, local community members sent a search party to the area of the attack and found dead bodies floating in the water, the BBC's Killian Chimtom in Cameroon reports.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-50987123
