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   Yaounde: The wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister was   
   kidnapped and at least three people were killed in an attack by   
   Boko Haram militants in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon   
   officials said.   
      
   A local religious leader, or lamido, named Seini Boukar Lamine,   
   who is also the town's mayor, was also kidnapped in a separate   
   attack on his home, they said.   
      
   There was no immediate claim of responsibility.   
      
   Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist militant group, has stepped up   
   cross-border attacks into Cameroon in recent weeks as Cameroon   
   has deployed troops to the region, joining international efforts   
   to combat the militants.   
      
   "I can confirm that the home of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali   
   in Kolofata came under a savage attack from Boko Haram   
   militants," government spokesman Issa Tchiroma, who is also   
   communications minister said.   
      
   A Cameroon military commander in the region said the vice prime   
   minister was taken to a neighbouring town by security officials.   
      
   "The situation is very critical here now, and as I am talking to   
   you the Boko Haram elements are still in Kolofata town in a   
   clash with our soldiers," said Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the   
   second commander of Cameroon's third inter-army military region,   
   based in the regional headquarters Maroua.   
      
   The Sunday attack is the third Boko Haram attack into Cameroon   
   since Friday. At least four soldiers were killed in the previous   
   attacks.   
      
   Boko Haram have killed hundreds of people this year, mostly in   
   north-eastern Nigeria.   
      
   A bomb attack on a Catholic church in northern Nigeria's main   
   city of Kano killed five people and wounded eight on Sunday, a   
   senior police officer said.   
      
   The attacker threw the bomb at worshippers on their way out of   
   the church,  which has suffered previous attacks by Boko Haram,   
   police commissioner Adenrele Shinaba said.   
      
   Also in Kano on Sunday, a woman suicide bomber blew herself up   
   outside a university after police prevented her carrying out an   
   attack, injuring five officers.   
      
   "A female suicide bomber was isolated [by police] as she was   
   walking towards the gate of the university," police spokesman   
   Frank Mba  said, adding that she had hidden the bomb under her   
   "long black hijab".   
      
   He said police had "isolated" her because she was behaving   
   strangely.   
      
   Officials on Sunday moved to avert further violence, cancelling   
   Eid festivities marking the end of the Muslim holy month of   
   Ramadan next week.   
      
   Reuters, AAP   
      
   http://www.smh.com.au/world/boko-haram-kidnap-wife-of-cameroons-   
   vice-pm-say-officials-20140728-zxhu3.html   
      
       
      
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