6 dead as highway bandits pounce on Cameroon convoy

Highway bandits pounced on a convoy under military escort in northern Cameroon killing six people and leaving several wounded, national radio said Tuesday.
The armed bandits exchanged gunfire with two soldiers from Cameroon's rapid intervention battalion in Vina, in the Adamaoua region of the west African nation, Cameroon Radio-Television reported.
The convoy included a bus full of merchants headed to a cattle market, the radio said, adding that one of the bandits -- sporting a bullet-proof vest -- was able to keep firing "for a long time," wounding one of the soldiers.