NEWSROOM (ADV) – A group of armed separatist forces was intercepted early Sunday as it tried to burn polling stations in Bafut, a locality in crisis-hit English-speaking region of Northwest as voting in the country’s presidential election begins, the Cameroon army said on Sunday.
“The soldiers are in pursuit of the fugitives,” the army said in a statement.
Three hunting rifles and two spray pumps full of gasoline to be used to burn the polling stations have been seized, the statement said.
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Over 6,500,000 people are voting in Sunday’s race as tension continues to grow in the two English-speaking regions of Southwest and Northwest where armed separatists are fighting to create a new nation called “Ambazonia.”
The separatists have vowed to stop the vote from taking place in the regions.
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