Story out of Maroua, Cameroon:
U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power’s trip to Cameroon’s front lines in the war against Boko Haram started horrifically Monday as an armoured jeep in her motorcade struck and killed a young boy who darted into the road.
The incident occurred near the small city of Moloko, in northern Cameroon, where Power, her aides and accompanying journalists were headed to meet refugees and others displaced by the years of brutal attacks across West Africa.
Power said she learned of the death with “great sorrow.”
She said she met with the boy’s family to “offer our profound condolences and our grief and heartbreak.”
Power returned to the scene of the bloody accident several hours later to meet the 7-year-old boy’s mother and father, while residents of his village stood solemnly on a sandy expanse. Cont.
Story from - Global News
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