Four Cameroonian soldiers, including a general who was co-ordinating the fight against Nigerian Boko Haram Islamists, were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash, sources told AFP.
"We lost four men, including the general (Jacob Kodji)" and a colonel, a senior military official who is involved in the fight against Boko Haram told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The men were killed when the Cameroonian military helicopter they were travelling in crashed in Bogo region in the far north, said the official, without giving details of the cause of the accident.
"They were on a mission in Waza Park as part of an operation to battle Boko Haram," he said. A local government official confirmed the deaths.