Five men are being detained by security forces in Yokadouma in the East region of Cameroon. They are accused of exhuming a corpse for what was believed to be ritualistic purposes.
Reports say the men were arrested after a set up by security officials whom they thought were people in need of human parts.
“We arranged and contacted them and they demanded the sum of 8 million FCFA to exhume a corpse and give us the bones. But after numerous negotiations they accepted the sum of 3 million FCFA and a date was fixed for them to give us the goods,” The Guardian Post newspaper quotes a source as saying.
The paper reports that the recent arrest is not the first of its kind, adding that human bone trafficking has been on the rise.
Mimi Mefo info
Residents and travelers have raised concerns over what they describe as a growing pattern of…
Le nom de Marie Flore Mboussi apparaît désormais parmi les auteurs de Conciencia Democrática, une…
Douala vit ce vendredi 5 juin une journée de tension dans le quartier historique de…
The United States Department of Homeland Security, DHS, has listed 15 Cameroonian nationals among 355…
The arrest of three teenagers in Yaoundé over alleged threats made on TikTok has reopened…
By Njoh Linda Prof. Bell Bitjoka, a Cameroonian cybercrime specialist and digital forensics expert, has…