A military base belonging to the West African multinational military force tasked with fighting Boko Haram was struck by an explosion on Wednesday, January 27.
According to Today.ng, the fire at the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) base at Mora in Cameroon burnt an ammunition store to ashes.
Frederic Ndjima, a resident of Mora town, said that local people heard explosions around the military base in the early hours of Wednesday and initially feared that it was attack carried out by members of the Boko Haram sect. Therefore, scared residents left their houses and fled in the direction of the Mandara mountains for safety.
However, CRTV national radio reported that preliminary investigations revealed that the cause of the explosion was an electrical short circuit.
The radio station also reported that there were no injuries in the explosion“because the missiles and rocket heads were directed towards the mountains behind the military base by defence experts who predicted the possibility of such an incident”.
The base at Mora is the first of the three MNJTF bases with the other two located in Chad and Nigeria respectively.
The Mora base is commanded by Brigadier-General Bouba Dobekreo and hosts Cameroonian and Chadian soldiers who operate around the Cameroon-Nigeria border and the Lake Chad.
Meanwhile, suspected members of Boko Haram have recently carried out several attacks in Cameroon’s Far North.
On Monday, January 25, four suicide bombers attacked a central market in the village of Bodo, killing at least 25 people.
Last week, a suicide bomber killed 12 people and wounded at least one in an attack on a mosque in Kouyape in northern Cameroon.
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