Article 5QQBF Cameroon urges calm after policeman kills schoolgirl in anglophone region

Cameroon urges calm after policeman kills schoolgirl in anglophone region

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Anger erupts and gendarme lynched after schoolgirl is shot at checkpoint in anglophone region

Authorities in English-speaking western Cameroon have appealed for calm after a police officer killed a five-year-old girl and was lynched by a mob.

The incident took place in Buea, a hotspot city in a region where anglophone separatists and government forces in the French-majority nation have been locked in bitter four-year-old conflict.

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