Members of Boko Haram sect
Cameroon on Saturday said more than
two dozen Boko Haram suspects died in custody late last year, but a
government spokesman denied the country’s army was carrying out regular
human rights abuses in its crackdown on the Nigerian Islamic extremist
group.
Agence France-Presse reported
that 25 suspects were found dead in their cell one day after being
arrested in December, Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said
in a press conference Friday evening. They were part of a group of 56
detainees, and the cause of their deaths is still being determined, he
said.
He added that a senior military official
had been removed from his post and was being investigated over the
deaths, though he did not identify this person by name.
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