One dead, several wounded in attack in Cameroon

SANAA, Sept. 10 (YPA) – A driver was killed and others injured in an attack on a convoy of buses Sunday night, a few kilometers from Bamenda city, northwest of the English-speaking Cameroon, the state television reported.

Gunmen launched an attack in the village of Akum, a few kilometers from Bamenda, the television added in its evening newscast.

Photos of the attack, circulated by social communication networks, showed a road being repaired, with a trench in the middle and five public transport buses destroyed.

Witnesses said that the attackers had dug the trench in the place of the incident.

“One of our collaborators told us that a group of armed men stormed the workshop and seized a bulldozer on the road,” said an official at the public works company renovating the road between Bamenda and Pafosam (80 km south).

The authorities of the Mizam state and a contingent of the Cameroonian army returned traffic on Sunday evening.

The two English-speaking regions (out of ten in Cameroon) face a severe crisis since late 2016 on the back of independence demands.

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