Gunfire Kills One in Cameroon

 
Residents of Buea in south-west Cameroon say “one man was shot dead and another is in hospital with bullet wounds after suspected separatist rebels opened fire near the town’s central market.

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Several football teams taking part in the Africa Cup Of Nations are based in Buea and train there.

Correspondents say the Cameroonian military has a significant presence in the town to counter any security threat.

The separatists who “started fighting the government almost five years ago had threatened to disrupt the tournament.

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Late on Tuesday, an opposition senator was shot dead in the city of Bamenda, in north-west Cameroon – another English-speaking region which is badly affected by the separatist rebellion.

 
 
 
BBC /Shakirat Sadiq
Gunfire Kills One in Cameroon