Four soldiers killed in helicopter crash

Four Cameroonian soldiers, including a general who was coordinating the fight against Nigerian Boko Haram Islamists, were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash, sources told AFP. “We lost four men, including the general (Jacob Kodji)” and a colonel, a senior military official who is involved in the fight against Boko Haram told AFP, speaking on […]

Four Cameroonian soldiers, including a general who was coordinating the fight against Nigerian Boko Haram Islamists, were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash, sources told AFP.
“We lost four men, including the general (Jacob Kodji)” and a colonel, a senior military official who is involved in the fight against Boko Haram told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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.
A local government official confirmed the deaths.
General Jacob Kodji was the leader of Emergence 4, the name given to one of the operations launched by Cameroon against Boko Haram.
As the fight against the Nigerian jihadists raged, Kodji was prompted in August 2015 to general by President Paul Biya. He is the first Cameroonian general to die in the battle against Boko Haram.