The wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister,Amadou Ali, has been kidnapped and at least
three other people have been killed in an attack
by Boko Haram fighters on Ali's home in the
northern town of Kolofata, officials have said.
A local religious leader and mayor, Seini Boukar
Lamine, was also kidnapped in a separate attack
on his home.
'I can confirm that the home of Vice Prime
Minister Amadou Ali in Kolofata came under a
savage attack from Boko Haram militants,'
Cameroon's information minister Issa Tchiroma
told Reuters news agency on Sunday.
'They unfortunately took away his wife. They
also attacked the lamido's (religious leader's)
residence and he was also kidnapped,' he said,
adding that at least three people were killed in
the attack.
Boko Haram fighters clashed with the
Cameroonian army in cross-border attacks twice
since Friday, killing four soldiers.
Cameroon has deployed more than 1,000
soldiers along its border to help combat the
Nigerian armed group.
In May, Boko Haram kidnapped 10 Chinese
workers from northern Cameroon.
A massive assault last week by Boko Haram in
which the group took control of northeast
Nigerian town of Damboa displaced more than
15,000 people.
Thousands of people have died since Boko
Haram launched an uprising in 2009, and several
hundred have been killed in the past two months
as the group steps up its campaign against the
government.
The group gained international notoriety after
kidnapping more than 270 schoolgirls in northern
Nigeria in April, but has been active in the
country for more than 12 years. ALJAZEERA
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