An
Army General and other soldiers have been killed when a military
helicopter they were travelling in, during an operation against Boko
Haram crashed in Bogo region.
Gen Kodji was leading an operation against Boko Haram
At least four Cameroonian soldiers, including a general who was
coordinating the fight against Nigerian Boko Haram militant Islamists,
were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash, reports say.
"We lost four men, including the general", named as Jacob
Kodji, as well as a colonel, a senior military official who is involved
in the fight against Boko Haram told AFP news agency.
The men were killed when the Cameroonian military helicopter they
were travelling in crashed in Bogo region in the far north, said the
official, without giving details of the cause of the accident.
"They were on a mission in Waza Park as part of an operation to battle Boko Haram," he said.
Gen Kodji was the leader of Emergence 4, the name given to one of the operations launched by Cameroon against Boko Haram.
He is the first Cameroonian general to die in the battle against
Boko Haram, whose insurgency has spread across the border into Cameroon,
Chad and Niger as the militants have been pushed out of their
strongholds in northeastern Nigeria.
At least 20,000 people have been killed and some 2.6 million displaced in the violence.
-BBC Africa
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