YAOUNDE – Cameroon’s army on Monday denied opposition charges that it had massacred villagers in a troubled English-speaking region, blaming instead an “unfortunate accident” caused by an explosion of fuel during a firefight.
Up to 22 civilians, 14 of them children, died in the incident on Friday, according to the United Nations — deaths which opposition parties blamed on members of the armed forces.
But army spokesman Colonel Cyrille Atonfack Guemo described the allegations as “duplicitous.”
An army investigation, he said, found that the deaths happened after fuel was set ablaze during a gunfight with anglophone separatists. (AFP)
