Cameroon Deploys Troops After Boko Haram Kidnapped Vice PM’s Wife

Cameroon has deployed troops to its northern region, in efforts to combat militants after the Nigerian Boko Haram kidnapped the wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister and killed at least three people on Sunday July 27 in a cross-border attack in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon officials said.

Government spokesman and communications minister, Issa Tchiroma, said, "I can confirm that the home of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali in Kolofata came under a savage attack from Boko Haram militants.”

"They unfortunately took away his wife. They also attacked the lamido's residence and he was also kidnapped," he said, adding that at least three people were killed in the attack.

A local religious leader, or lamido, named Seini Boukar Lamine, who is also the town's mayor, and five members of his family were also kidnapped in a separate attack on his home.