Cameroon strikes Boko Haram near border attack

Yaounde – Cameroon soldiers killed at least 27 fighters Boko Haram after the launch of a cross-border operation in the Nigerian town of Goshi which also resulted in the death of a soldier, a senior military official said Friday.
At least seven other soldiers were wounded in the operation on Thursday morning, said General Jacob Kodji. The Nigerian Islamist extremist group launched a series of attacks in Cameroon earlier this week, said Kodji. Ashigashiya straddles the border of northern Cameroon and Nigeria.
“At least 27 Boko Haram fighters were killed in Thursday’s operation morning,” said Kodji, commander of Cameroonian troops in the area.
“The soldiers remain on the battle front there,” he said.
regional forces of Cameroon and Nigeria since December 2015 launched raids on Boko Haram strongholds along their borders, particularly around Ashigashiya.
Islamist militants began attacks across the border in 2014 and intensified early last year on the neighboring Cameroon and other countries that supported the Nigerian military efforts to crush Boko Haram.
In northern Cameroon, officials said two suicide bombers believed to have come from Nigeria Wednesday killed 10 people and wounded 40 attending a suite in a border village. Attacks in Chad and Niger are also attributed to Boko Haram.
6-year Islamic insurgency Boko Haram has killed 20 000 people and displaced 2.5 million people, according to Amnesty International and the United Nations.