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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Yaounde, January 14 (Xinhua) — At least 14 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the early hours of Wednesday when suspected separatist militants raided a community in Cameroon's Northwest Region, local authorities said.
According to confirmed information from the governor of the English-speaking region of the country, Adolphe Lele Lafrique, 14 people were also injured in the attack, which occurred at around 5:30 a.m. local time in the village of Mbandfung in the commune of Ndu.
"Separatist terrorists invaded the village of Gidado and attacked the Mbororo community living there," Ndu Abdu Kanfon Borno, mayor of the commune, told Xinhua by phone. "There were no clashes. The villagers were still asleep. They simply opened fire on everyone, including children and women. A respected community elder was killed."
Earlier reports put the death toll in the attack at 12, but the death toll rose to 14 after several critically injured people later died from their injuries.
According to A. Lele Lafric, among the dead were six women and seven children aged between two and 11 years.
"This is a massacre. The government has ordered emergency security measures to track down the terrorists who committed this atrocity," the governor of the Northwest region told Xinhua in a telephone conversation, adding that houses were also burned and livestock slaughtered during the attack.
The motive for the attack remains unknown, and separatist militants have not yet commented on the incident.
Frequent deadly clashes between separatist militants and armed Mbororo tribes have occurred since 2017, when armed separatist conflict erupted in Cameroon's two English-speaking regions – Northwest and Southwest –
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