Hundreds of gunmen had crossed the border from Nigeria and attacked a Cameroonian military camp in Kolofata. Boko Haram suffered the losses during a bloody five-hour fight.
The Boko Haram Islamic extremist group
suffered its "heaviest toll" ever as Cameroon soldiers killed 143
terror thugs in a lopsided victory, officials said Tuesday.
Hundreds of gunmen had crossed the border
from Nigeria and attacked a Cameroonian military camp in Kolofata, Cameroonian
Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said. Boko Haram suffered the losses
during a bloody five-hour fight.
"It is by far the heaviest toll
sustained by the criminal sect Boko Haram since it began launching its barbaric
attacks against our land, people and goods," Bakary said.
A Cameroonian corporal was killed and four
other soldiers were wounded, he said. Since the fighting took place in a remote
border region where terror thugs have abducted foreigners, the death toll could
not be confirmed.
| Dead bodies of Boko Haram militants |
Earlier this month Boko Haram henchmen may
have killed as many as 2,000 people during an attack on the Nigerian town of
Baga. Amnesty International called it Boko Haram's "deadliest act"
yet.
Bodies were still spread out all over the
town nine days after the massacre.
"It is still not safe to go and pick
them up for burial," local government official Musa Bukar told CNN.
A man injured in a suicide bombing is
transported to the General Hospital in northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum this
weekend.
A
man injured in a suicide blast is transported at the General Hospital in
northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on January 12, 2015. Four people were
killed and 46 injured when two female suicide bombers detonated their
explosives outside a mobile phone market in the town on January 11, 2015. Although
no one claimed responsibility the attacks bore the hallmark of Boko Haram
Islamists who have been increasingly using female suicide bombers in their
armed campaign to establish a hard-line Islamic state. Potiskum, the commercial
hub of Yobe state has been repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram.
An undated photograph from 2014 made
available 13 January 2015 shows members of the Nigerian military manning
checkpoints in Maiduguri, North East Nigeria. The Nigerian government said up
to 150 people had been killed by Boko Haram in the country's north last week
and dismissed widespread reports that 2,000 people had died.
An undated photograph from 2014 made
available 13 January 2015 shows members of the Nigerian military patrolling in
Maiduguri, North East Nigeria. The Nigerian government said up to 150 people
had been killed by Boko Haram in the country's north last week and dismissed
widespread reports that 2,000 people had died. 
An undated photograph from 2014 made
available 13 January 2015 shows members of the Nigerian military patrolling in
Maiduguri, North East Nigeria. The Nigerian government said up to 150 people
had been killed by Boko Haram in the country's north last week and dismissed
widespread reports that 2,000 people had died.
Boko Haram is believed to have killed
thousands and driven 1.6 million people from their homes.
It is believed the terror group was
responsible for a suicide bombing at a crowded market in Nigeria this weekend
that left at least 16 people dead. The female suicide bomber may have been just
10 years old.
The terror thugs abducted nearly 300
schoolgirls in Nigeria last year, and more than 200 remain missing.
With
News Wire Services
