All 45 patients at Mamfe district hospital were safely transferred to another facility and there were no deaths.

It is not clear who was behind the attack, but local media suspect that it was the work of English-speaking separatists who want to break away from the French-speaking majority.

Five years of violent conflict between Anglophone separatists and government soldiers have seen both sides accused of abuses, while more than 6,000 people have been killed and 700,000 others displaced.

Lolo Ijeoma Njoku Obinwannem News Writer / June 10, 2022