Boko Haram has been making headlines in Cameroon in the past several months following numerous gruesome attacks in the northern regions of the country where the Cameroon army is making things difficult for the terror group. At the beginning of this week, Boko Haram was in the news again as they chased hundreds of Nigerian soldiers into Cameroon. Official sources in Cameroon say 700 soldiers, alongside their family members and other civilians, had actually escaped a Boko Haram attack which last week took over certain communities in Bono State, Nigeria and declared an Islamic caliphate. According to security sources, the deserting soldiers and civilians were rounded up by Cameroon security forces in the evening of Sunday August 24 upon arrival in Cameroon and taken to administrative authorities in Marua. After interrogation on Monday, they were given fuel, fuel and other basic needs and temporal lodging in some school campuses in the region as ordered by Cameroon's president Paul Bia. After sending back 500 of the soldiers on Monday, 200 of the soldiers were escorted back to the country yesterday in the meantime. Many resources in the military headquarters in the Aung they have disclosed that over 28 Boko Haram militants have been killed by elements of Cameroon's rapid intervention battalion B during a gun exchange in some border communities in Mayo-Sava division. They were killed in an ongoing operation which the B launched in the area. State radio reported that 16 insurgents were killed on August 26 and 11 earlier on Monday August 25 as they were attempting to enter Cameroon. Several casualties have been recorded in Cameroon and Nigeria since the Boko Haram group launched its insurgency in 2009.