• Suspected Militants kill six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon’s Far North region, near Nigeria border.
• Three armed men from Boko Haram arrived on a motorbike and attacked the fishermen.
• A multinational force with troops from all four countries last week said it had killed over 800 Militants in about two months in the Lake Chad region.

Six Nigerian fishermen were killed by suspected Militants in Cameroon’s Far North region, near insurgent hideouts in Lake Chad, a local official and a police officer told AFP on Thursday.

“Three armed men from Boko Haram arrived on a motorbike and attacked the fishermen,” an administration official in the Logone and Chari department said on condition of anonymity.

A gendarme officer stationed in the area confirmed the killings near the Chadian and Nigerian borders.

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Nigeria’s Boko Haram and its dissident branch, the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), have in recent years carried out deadly attacks against security forces and civilians in northern Cameroon, as well as adjacent parts of Nigeria, Niger and Chad.

The Cameroonian authorities call both groups “Boko Haram”.

Boko Haram launched an insurgency in northeast Nigeria in 2009 before it spread through the region.

More than 36,000 people have been killed since, mainly in Nigeria, and three million forced to flee their homes, the United Nations says.

A multinational force with troops from all four countries last week said it had killed over 800 Militants in about two months in the volatile Lake Chad region.

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Between March 28 and June 4, 805 “terrorists” were killed on Lake Chad’s islands and surrounding areas, according to the Multinational Joint Task Force.

The vast, swampy Lake Chad basin spans Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad, and Militants have established bases on its many small islands.