Boko Haram Insurgents Kidnaps Wife Of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister

Suspected Boko Haram fighters have kidnapped the wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister, Amadou Ali, and also killed at least three other people when they attacked the Prime Minister’s home in the northern town of Kolofata.

Officials said a local religious leader and mayor, Seini Lamine, was also kidnapped in a separate attack on his home.

Cameroon’s information minister Issa Tchiroma confirmed that the home of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali came under a savage attack from Boko Haram militants.