Anglophone Separatists Kill 5 Police Officers In Bomb Attack In Bali, Cameroon
The separatists, claiming responsibility for the attack, killed the Policemen on duty in Northwest Cameroon.
Anglophone separatist fighters on Sunday, July 18, 2021 killed five police officers in a bomb attack on a checkpoint in Bali, Mezam Division of the Northwest region of Cameroon.
According to a police source that requested anonymity because he is not authorised to talk on behalf of the police, the carnage was not as a result of a confrontation between the two sides.
“One set of policemen was yesterday morning in the process of taking over from another set at the checkpoint when the separatists appeared from nowhere and lobbed an improvised explosive device at the policemen. It exploded and killed all the security officers on the spot,” the security source said.
“The assailants subsequently carried away the weapons and ammunition of the dead police officers as well as their identification documents, which they are surely going to use in impersonating as security officers,” the source added.
The identities of those killed were given as Major Bikoi, Major Mamdi of the Mixed Intervention Brigade, Major Meng, Major Oba, and Major Temgoua.
The authorities were yet to make a statement about the massacre but the separatists have since claimed responsibility for the killings on social media.
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