No fewer than ten people were killed and several others injured in an attack by suspected Fulani and ex-Seleka rebels in western Central African Republic, a security official announced on Thursday.According
to a police officer’s account, the attackers were armed and currently
occupy Ngaoundaye region in the northwest where they attacked.
The prefecture of Ouham-Pende confirmed the attack which was sparked
by the refusal of the people in the town to allow the Fulani herdsmen
from Kabo and north of Markounda to cross Ngaoundaye to the border of
Cameroon.
“Policemen were sent to Ngaoundaye during the weekend to secure the
area and its inhabitants. But the Fulani herders supported by ex-Seleka
rebels entered the center of Ngaoundaye on Tuesday, attacking the
inhabitants, burning homes and the gendarmerie,” the source told AFP.
He
added that phone lines have been cut in the town and the people have
fled to take refuge in the bush and neighbouring regions as
reinforcement sent there is stationed in a neighbouring town.
This attack marks the first major violence since the election of
President Touadera in February after years of violence between the
former Seleka rebel group predominantly Muslim, and the Anti-Balaka
movement.
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