Security forces rescue wife of Cameroon’s vice PM from Boko Haram

 Security forces in Cameroun have rescued the wife of the country’s Vice Prime Minister, Amadou Ali, who was abducted on Sunday by members of the Boko Haram sect, the BBC Hausa service reports.

The woman and her maid were kidnapped from their home in Cameroun’s northern town of Kolofata while the vice PM managed to escape the assailants to a neighbouring town according to Reuters report. A local religious leader, named Seini Lamine, was also abducted from the same town in a separate incident.


Boko Haram has in the past weeks scaled up attacks in Cameroon. The attack is the third by Boko Haram in that country since Friday.

At least four soldiers were killed in the previous attacks, Reuters reported.

The report by the BBC on Monday did not provide more details, but it quoted the spokesperson of the government of Cameroun, Tchiroma Bakary, as saying the government is still investigating to know the exact number of persons that died during the attack.