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Cameroon villagers killed in ‘unfortunate accident’, says army
YAOUND, Feb 17, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Villagers in a restive anglophone region
of Cameroon who the UN says were massacred died in an “unfortunate accident,”
the army told AFP on Monday.
The bloodshed, which occurred on Friday, killed 22 civilians, 14 of them
children, according to part of the opposition, which blames members of the
armed forces.
But army spokesman Colonel Cyrille Atonfack Guemo said the deaths were
an “unfortunate accident,” which happened when fuel exploded in an exchange
of gunfire with separatists.
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