Cameroon's army said Thursday it killed ten suspected members of the militant group Boko Haram this week, Reuters reported.
The suspected militants were killed during several clashes near the northern Cameroon border with Nigeria, military officials told the news agency.
Six Boko Haram militants were killed Tuesday during a clash in the village of Wambache, Colonel Felix Nji Formekong said. Another two militants were killed during combat in a different village the same day.
Also on Tuesday, a convoy suspected to be from Boko Haram attacked a Cameroon army unit stationed in another village. A clash ensued and two more militants were killed, Formekong told Reuters.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has continued its deadly rampage across northern Nigeria in an attempt to form an Islamic nation.
An explosion at the Emab Shopping Complex in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Wednesday killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens. Nigerian police said they were taking measures to protect "soft targets and infrastructure" and warned citizens to steer clear of explosion sites in case of a secondary blast, NBC News reported.
In April, over 70 people were killed after a bomb detonated at a bus station in the capitol.
That same month, over 200 schoolgirls were abducted from their boarding school in the village of Chibok in the northern Nigerian state of Borno. Boko Haram admitted to the kidnappings, declaring in a video that they would sell the girls as wives and slaves. Dozens of girls were able to escape their captors, but most are still missing.
The girls are believed to be have been taken to Cameroon and Chad. However those reports were not confirmed.
Cameroon sent over 1,000 troops into Nigeria after its neighbor complained they were not receiving enough help battling the Islamist group, Reuters reported.
Other kidnappings have also occurred in Cameroon, where Boko Haram is rumored to have established a base.
