YAOUNDE (Reuters) - At least one gendarme was killed during an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in northern Cameroon near the Nigerian border early on Monday, Cameroon's state radio and a government spokesman said.
State radio said some 30 suspected members of the Nigerian armed Islamic group attacked a gendarme post at around 2 a.m. (0100 GMT) and at least one gendarme was killed in the ensuing gunfight. The attackers freed a suspected Boko Haram militant detained there and escaped with several weapons, it said.
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