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Reuters
Reuters
Health
Amindeh Blaise Atabong

At least 26 killed in attack in South-West Cameroon - medical officer

At least 26 villagers were killed in an attack on Saturday in the Akwaya district of Cameroon's South-West region, where separatist insurgencies have added fuel to long-running inter-ethnic conflicts over land, local sources said on Monday.

Anglophone insurgents began fighting the Cameroonian military in the South-West and North-West regions in 2017 after civilian protests calling for greater representation for the country's English-speaking minority were violently repressed.

The Akwaya district medical officer, Enow Daniel Kewong, told Reuters 26 bodies had been found so far and people were still missing after Saturday's attack on Ballin village, near the border with Nigeria.

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