Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 15 people in a pre-dawn attack on a village in northern Cameroon, a local vigilante and \u200can administrative authority said on Thursday, in the latest violence to hit the area plagued by a long-running insurgency.<\/p>\n
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Armed insurgents entered the village of Madegoua, near the town of Makary, at around 2:00 CAT on Thursday, pulling out \u2060men and tying them up before executing them, said the local vigilante member, who requested anonymity to discuss the incident for security reasons.<\/p>\n
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The initial death toll had been 13 though two other victims later died from injuries at a Makary hospital, according to the vigilante.<\/p>\n
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The victims initially confirmed dead were buried on Thursday, according to a video seen by Reuters, which was not immediately able to \u200cindependently \u2060verify it.<\/p>\n
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. A security analyst told Reuters<\/em> it was likely carried out by Islamic State West Africa Province militants who are active in the area.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some villagers said \u2060they suspected the assault may have been enforcement of an earlier order from militants for them to vacate, given it sits on a strategic route towards Makary.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cameroon’s \u2060Far North, which borders Nigeria and Chad, has for years been affected by violence involving Boko Haram and other Islamist \u2060militants operating in the Lake Chad basin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cameroon is part of a regional multinational military force fighting Islamist militants around Lake Chad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –Reuters–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21744,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-45813","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 15 people in a pre-dawn attack on a village in northern Cameroon","published_date":"2026-09-18 07:11:38","news_description":"Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 15 people in a pre-dawn attack on a village in northern Cameroon","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45814,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45813\/revisions\/45814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}