A Stock Of Weapons Seized In The Southwest

Four people were also killed and fifteen others arrested during the raid by the police.

A large stock of automatic and artisan weapons were seized on Sunday, November 12, 2017, in the locality Bafia in Muyengue village, after Muyuka in the Southwest region.

The stock of about twenty weapons were seized in homes during a cordon of close to 800 men in uniform from different cities and region.

They Arrived around 4am and they began digging in the homes. In addition to the weapons, they arrested about 15 people. The stock of weapons were sent to a safe place.

An investigation was opened ", reports a source to the Day. It was around 1300hrs, that the excavations stopped.

A Stock Of Weapons Seized In The Southwest

This source reveals that when the men in uniform left the scene, the people had left a message on the board of a school, forbidding them to return home. During the descent of gendarmes, police and military, the joint mission faces a point check point created by the people for the search of vehicles entering and leaving this locality.

The situation degenerates when a controller recognizes the gendarmes indic in a vehicle. "The controllers have asked for 50000F. CFA to the truck driver who was right in front of us. All vehicles transporting the goods to Douala undergo daily inspections and are forced to pay this amount.

During the negotiation with the driver of the truck, the controllers recognized the gendarmerie informer in another vehicle and shot him, "said a source.

The men's response in uniform left three people at the checkpoint on the floor. According to our source, the locality of Muyengue has no brigade or police station. These populations have set up their own police station in the premises of a high school and also have a "sous-préfet". They have an entire administration that is not known to the government, we learn. A Stock Of Weapons Seized In The Southwest