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Cameroon's army killed 116 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday when the insurgents attacked an army base in the far north region of Amchide, the country's defense ministry said Thursday.
Cameroonian defense and security forces defeated a massive attack conducted by about 3,000 suspected Nigerian Islamic Boko Haram fighters from Wednesday to Thursday, sources from the ministry who declined to be named said, adding that the attack started at around 16:00 local time (15:00 GMT) Wednesday which also left three Cameroonian soldiers killed.
The sources said the two sides engaged in heaving fighting with heavy weapons in Amchide and Limani, two places in far-north of Cameroon bordering Nigeria, where the suspected Boko Haram fighters regularly launch attacks.
According to the sources, the three Cameroonian soldiers who were killed in the attack are from the Rapid Intervention Battalion (RIB), an elite troop deployed in the far-north of Cameroon for several months to fight against Boko Haram fundamentalists.
The sources said 6 RIB soldiers were injured in the attack.
The attack comes less than a week after a previous attack during which the Cameroonian army announced having killed at least 180 Boko Haram fighters on Dec. 12 in the same localities.
Security sources said it's within the same territory that over 200 Boko Haram fighters were killed together with nine Cameroonian soldiers, during deadly clashes between the two camps on Oct. 15 and 16 in 2014. Enditem
