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Waza

Location of Waza, Cameroon

The 2 January 2015 Waza attack was a terrorist attack carried out by Boko Haram against a bus in Waza, Cameroon, killing 11 people and wounding 6.

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In late 2014 and early 2015, the Nigerian anti-Western jihadist organization Boko Haram began to launch attacks in Cameroon as they took control of northeastern Nigeria's Borno State. On 2 January 2015, 11 people were killed and 6 others were wounded when Boko Haram launched an attack on a bus in Waza National Park in northern Cameroon, on the border with Boko Haram-controlled Nigeria.

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