Boko Haram seizes more towns in NE Nigeria
Boko Haram on Tuesday attempted to blow up a bridge on the Nigerian border with Cameroon after overrunning two towns and sending residents and soldiers fleeing, police and locals said.
A Cameroon police officer stationed in the far northern town of Fotokol told AFP that the militants tried to destroy the bridge, which serves as the border crossing with Gamboru Ngala in Nigeria.
Boko Haram stormed Gamboru Ngala early on Monday and by evening had taken over the police station, a military barracks and vocational training centre, where they had based themselves, locals said.
Three children were reportedly injured by flying shrapnel when explosives were detonated, possibly by firing from the Cameroon side of the border, they added.
Boko Haram had earlier stormed through two other Nigerian cities, cut the throats of three people in front of a church after soldiers deployed there fled for their lives across the border into nearby Cameroon, a police source in that country said Tuesday.
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