Anglophone Crisis: Couple, At Least 14 Others Killed In Bamenda Within 2 Days

Mourners Moving From One Affected Home To The Other To Grieve With Victim's Families


By Raymond Dingana 

Peace, very much cherished by many seems to have eluded Bamenda and the North West Region as a whole as unidentified gunmen kill a recently wedded couple and nine others in Nacho Bamenda.

The couple before their untimely death was operating a phone shop at Old Treasury Street, Commercial Avenue Bamenda, North West Region of Cameroon.

The episodes happened in the night of Friday breaking Saturday July 14 and the evening hours of Sunday July 15 Awing Quarter at Nacho Junction in Bamenda II Sub Division.

Five young boys were shot dead under unclear circumstances and close to 11 others shot dead at Nacho Junction on Sunday including a couple that wedded recently.

This takes the number of those killed at Awing Quarter and Nacho all in Bamenda within two days to at least 16.

Those familiar with the incident say two vehicles arrived Nacho Junction, Sunday night and force them out.

Suddenly, gunshots were heard and people started running. It happened so fast. When the gunshots subsided and people started coming out from their hiding places that was when they started seeing persons lying on the ground. We counted close to nine bodies,

 stated Basil, a resident of the area,who continued that:

We have deposited the remains of my friend and his wife killed at Nacho Junction. They were amongst the 8-10 persons killed in the vicinity. Some of them were taken from their homes and brought at Nacho Junction,

Basil told drayinfos.com.


Couple Killed In The Attack At Nacho Junction Sunday Evening 


The recent killings came barely days after a young man was pulled out of his workshop and killed at Nanga Junction in Bamenda by gun carrying men.

            Has Peace Dodged Bamenda And North West Region As A Whole?

The recent killings have caused many to ask the question as to whether peace has gone on vacation away from the region. This is because the efforts by the numerous peace groups dotted here and there have not bear the desired fruits. Not even the Millions of FCFA deployed to bring back serenity have scored the kind of goals it would have loved to.

Killings, maiming, burnings and other forms of destruction have not ceased to happen. The wailing has not stopped, the pain is still there, parents watching their kids lying dead in the pool of their own blood and children seeing their parents exiting the world in the most excruciating style as gun carrying men carry on their carnage on the civilian population

All these have been blamed on those not wanting to allow peace to regain its place in the region perhaps because they are building castles from the blood of their people as many lives are destroyed every day never to be replaced.

             Time To Show More Love For Humanity Not Earthly Things

According to Rev. Silas, a resident of Meta Quarter, it would be immense to apply same energy in the preservation of lives like it is seen in the execution of development projects.

One would have loved to see much energy being channeled towards preserving lives so that people would live to enjoy the developmental projects when completed. The lives gone will never return. Time to show more love for humanity than earthly things is now, says Rev. Silas.

Since 2017 when the Anglophone Crisis morphed in to a deadly armed conflict, more than 6000 persons have died, hundreds of thousands more displaced, hundreds if not thousands more unaccounted for.

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Banseka's Information Site said…
Oh my God ..this is sad and pathetic..when shall we experience again ..oh noo..may they all rest in the lord's bossom
July 17, 2023 at 2:02 PM
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