Bamenda: Calm Returns After Turbulent Weekend

 Survivors receiving treatment in the Bamenda Regional Hospital and Mbingo Baptist hospitals.

Inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Bamenda II sub Division did not enjoy a peaceful night on Saturday, November 18 breaking, Sunday 19, 2017. Late night gunshots spread fear in the neighbourhood of Food Market, Hospital Roundabout and Ntarikon.
It later emerged that at about 1 a.m. on Sunday, November  19, Security officers on duty, came face to face with some unidentified people on a motorcycle, who did not hesitate to open fire, wounding the driver of the Police Van on patrol. A hunt for the suspects allegedly resulted in the wounding of some three civilians. The situation slowed the movement of taxis, commercial motorcycles and Christians who filed out early that morning for business appointments and church services.
At Press time, some of the  victims were still receiving  treatment. The Director of the Bamenda Regional hospital, Dr. Kingue Thompson Njie told Cameroon Tribune that the hospital received all the four victims.

He said the policeman received a bullet on the shoulder but the bone did not suffer any serious casualty. Another patient, an 18 year –old  lady said  tshat on their way into Bamenda from the South West region in an inter-urban travel bus, a policeman fired a gunshot into their bus during which she received injuries in the hand and left armpit.

She is in the hospital ward with another guy who received a bullet on the right tire. Dr Kingue Thompson said that all are recovering.

Meanwhile, one of the victims is said to have left the Regional hospital on self ...