Cameroon: Boko Haram slaughters 4 children, abducts 8 girls

Four children were butchered with machetes in front of their parents and 8 girls abducted by Boko Haram militants on Thursday in the village of Achigachia in the Far North region of Cameroon. The attackers stormed Achigachia slaughtered four children aged 6 to 12 years and kidnapped eight other girls aged 10-15 years. 

Our military informant who reported the incident also added that the Boko Haram fighters were going to sell these girls in Nigeria for forced marriage. Cameroon Concord also learned that two trucks carrying foodstuffs were taken away by Boko Haram militia along the Maroua-Mora highway.

The Far North region of Cameroon has suffered for more than a year, the onslaught of the Nigerian Islamic sect. Several hundreds of people have been killed during these bloody attacks attributed to Boko Haram.