region, where the army is battling Nigeria's Boko Haram militants, a senior officer said.
"Unfortunately we lost two men. One was a captain," the officer said by phone from Maroua.
Boko Haram, whose six-year campaign to establish an
Islamic emirate in northeast Nigeria has spread into neighbouring
Cameroon, Chad and Niger, have started using landmines and roadside
bombs as the armies of the four nations step up the fight to contain
them.
The
Cameroonian officer said the explosives probably came from a stock that
Boko Haram stole last May when they attacked a Chinese workers' camp in
Waza. The insurgents kidnapped 10 Chinese citizens and seized a large
amount of explosives.
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