Boko Haram attacks Cameroon's army in border town

The Cameroonian army supported by Chadian troops on Wednesday morning came under a massive attack by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram in Fotokol, a border town in Cameroon's Extreme Northern region, military sources said.

"Several heavily armed Boko Haram units entered Fotokol in the morning to attack our camps. We are in the process of repelling them," the sources said without giving the exact death toll from the fighting.

The sources said the terrorist group which had in its ranks mercenaries from Libya, Sudan, Mali and other non-African fighters, was using sophisticated weapons.

The Boko Haram attack came just three days after an attempted attack by the terrorists in the same area was repulsed by a joint force of Cameroonian and Chadian troops.

On Sunday, the militant group was chased away by Chadian troops in Nigeria's northeastern town of Gambaru near the Cameroonian border, which it had occupied for several months. Endi