BOKO HARAM CRISIS: NIGERIAN TROOPS 'FLEE INTO CAMEROON.
Some 480 Nigerian soldiers have fled into Cameroon following fierce
fighting with Boko Haram militants, Cameroon's army has said.
Army spokesman Lt Col Didier Badjek said the soldiers had been disarmed and were now being accommodated in schools.
Clashes are said to be continuing in the border town of Gamboru Ngala.
Boko Haram on Sunday released a video in which it said it had
established an Islamic state in the towns and villages it controls in
north-eastern Nigeria.
The group's five-year insurgency has
intensified in recent months despite the deployment of thousands of
extra troops to the worst-affected areas.
Last week, a group of soldiers refused to follow orders to go and fight Boko Haram, saying the militants were better equipped.
Insurgents also seized one of Nigeria's two main police training
academies, which is near the town of Gwoza, captured earlier this month.
The Nigerian soldiers are currently in the Cameroonian town of Maroua,
about 80km (50 miles) from the Nigerian border, Lt Col Badjek told the
BBC.
Thousands of civilians are also said to have fled across the border.
Cameroon has officially closed its 1,600-km border with Nigeria to help
contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus but correspondents say
this is impossible to enforce in the remote areas near the fighting.
Boko Haram launched an attack on the police station and a military base
in Gamboru Ngala at 05:30 local time (04:30 GMT), the AFP news agency
reports.
In May, some 300 people were killed in an attack which left much of the town in ruins.
It is near Gwoza, the largest town under control of Boko Haram. In the
most recent census, in 2006, it had a population of more than 265,000
people.
In the 52-minute video released on Sunday, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said Gwoza was now "part of the Islamic state".
He did not specify whether his group now had any links to the Islamic
State (IS) group, which has seized much of northern Iraq in recent
months, prompting the US to respond with air strikes.
There is no evidence for such links but in July, Mr Shekau congratulated IS on its territorial gains.
8/26/2014
BOKO HARAM CRISIS: NIGERIAN TROOPS 'FLEE INTO CAMEROON.
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