Troops have been deployed to Cameroon’s Far North region after the killing of 12 people in inter-communal violence, the region’s governor Midjiyawa Bakari told Xinhua.
At least 48 people were also seriously injured and more than 100 houses torched when dispute over water source and land between members of the fishing community of Mousgoum and Arabchoas who are cattle breeders in the town of Kousseri erupted.
State officials, security and local community leaders have agreed to form an investigation committee and visit the communities to defuse tension and reach reconciliation, according to Bakari.
The area which is located in the Logone and Chari division of the region has witnessed several bloody clashes between tribes in the last five years, but Tuesday’s violence was the deadliest, according to security reports.
