Boko Haram 'Abducts' 50 Children In Cameroon

Suspected Boko Haram fighters have abducted up to 80 people, many of them children, in a deadly assault on villages in northern Cameroon, officials say.

"According to our initial information, around 30 adults, most of them herders, and 50 young girls and boys aged between 10 and 15 years were abducted," a senior army officer deployed to northern Cameroon told news agency Reuters.
That would make it Boko Haram's largest abduction in Cameroon to date.
Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary confirmed that three people were killed in the attack on Sunday, which targeted the village of Mabass and several others along the Nigerian border.
He said soldiers had intervened and exchanged fire with the assailants for around two hours.