Cameroonian police officer said that the arrest of three suspected arms dealers believed to be linked to Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram, has been made on thursday.
The men were caught in the far north of the country on Wednesday, near the border with Nigeria where the group has been waging a brutal armed insurgency.
Somw other suspected terrorists arrested while attempting to escape into Cameroon through Taraba and Gumti, Adamawa State.
The stock of weapons was sizeable, and the police officers think the plan was to bring them through Cameroon before taking them to Nigeria.
Boko Haram is fighting a bloody insurgency in the majority-Muslim north of Nigeria, with the National Emergency Management Agency saying this week that more than 1,000 people have been killed in the violence so far this year.
Some of the group’s fighters are thought to have fled to neighbouring Cameroon since the Nigerian army launched an offensive in May last year.
Nigeria recently appealed to its neighbours for help in trying to eradicate the group.
Already this month, six suspected fighters and one Cameroonian soldier have been killed in clashes after Boko Haram infiltrated into neighbouring Cameroon.
More so the Nigerian Joint Military Task Force arrested suspected terrorists while attempting to escape into Cameroon through Taraba and Gumti, Adamawa State .
The suspects were said to have come out of hiding in the forest due to hunger in their make shift camps.
Those that were apprehended led the Nigerin troops to other hideouts. Seven terrorists died, while a large number of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, and rifles were recovered including over 70 motorcycles. Similar encounter in Gombi also led to the death of four other terrorists.