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Nigeria halts demarcation work at border with Cameroon following attack

Xinhua, February 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

Nigeria has halted a demarcation project at the Nigeria-Cameroon border following an attack against a team of officials in the area on Jan. 31, a local official said on Thursday.

Director-General of Nigeria's National Boundary Commission Muhammed Ahmad told reporters at the border town where the incident occurred in Nigeria's northeastern state of Adamawa that work had already been put on hold indefinitely.

One UN independent contractor, three Nigerian nationals and one Cameroonian national were killed and others injured when the unknown armed group struck in an ambush on Tuesday.

Ahmad identified one of the Nigerian nationals killed as a worker of the National Boundary Commission. The team of workers were on duty in Koncha community in Cameroon and Tipsan in Nigeria, the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, placing demarcation pillars there, he said.

"This kind of a thing has never happened before, this is the first time we are experiencing such," he told reporters, adding "for now we have called off the exercise and withdrawn all our people from the area till further notice."

According to him, Nigerian officials have scheduled a meeting with the United Nations officials in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, on the issue. Endit