location: Kumbo
notes: In an official statement, Cameroon's defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo, said that a boy was shot accidentally after villagers attacked gendarmes with locally made guns, wounding one of the gendarmes. The defense minister said the gendarmes were in Kifem on an anti-drug operation and that they opened fired in self-defense. Residents say the gendarmes seized the teenager s corpse and paraded it through the streets.
target_text: location: Kumbo, fatalities: 1