Boko Haram Rampages Near Cameroonian Border

At least 70 civilians and six soldiers were killed by
Islamic Boko Haram sect in an attack on the
Cameroonian border town of Fotokol, AFP reports.
According to Cameroonian security source, "there
are many (dead) civilians, nearly 70. The toll for
the soldiers stands at six."
#BREAKING 70 civilians and six troops killed
in Boko Haram rampage in Cameroon,
security source says
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) February 4,
2015
He continued that there were also Boko Haram
corps "everywhere".
The onslaught occurred a day after Nigeria
received troops from neigbour Chad to flush the
militants out of Gamboru, which situates near
Fotokol on the other side of a bridge.
According to Chad's army officials more than 200
Boko Haram insurgents were killed in the
involvement.
But some of terrorists fled and attacked again.
Umar Babakalli, a resident of Fotokol, said: " Boko
Haram inflicted so much damage here this
morning. They have killed dozens of people. "
Witnesses said Boko Haram militants slit civilians'
throats and then set on fire local mosque.
" They burnt houses and killed civilians as well as
soldiers ," another source said.
After several hours of fight Cameroonian troops,
backed by Chadian forces who disorganized back
from Nigeria to help guard the town, managed to
repel the attack
" People are coming back little by little to assess
the damage. The survivors among the attackers
have left the town ," witness said.
The Boko Haram sect has stepped up its assaults
in past weeks, in a move considered to be
intention of disrupting the February presidential
poll.
The insurgentss have tried, in vain, to take the
strategical northeastern town of Maiduguri,
the capital of Borno State, twice in the past week.
In January 3rd, the terrorists carried out a
massacre in a town on Lake Chad, Baga, killing at
least hundreds of people.