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A US missionary has been killed in Cameroon about two weeks after moving there with his wife and eight children.<\/p>\n
Charles Wesco was in a car with his wife, son, another missionary and a driver on their way to a market in the city of Bamenda when he was shot.<\/p>\n
He was caught in cross-fire between the security forces and separatist fighters, a government statement said.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s two English-speaking provinces have been hit by more than a year of deadly violence.<\/p>\n
\u2018God allowed it for a purpose\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n The government has blamed the rebels for killing Mr Wesco, saying its troops had killed the four fighters responsible.<\/p>\n Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo said the 44-year-old cleric was targeted by rebels planning to attack a nearby university.<\/p>\n But an Anglophone separatist group, which wants to form a breakaway state called Ambazonia, said government soldiers were to blame for the killing.<\/p>\n Hundreds have died in violence in Cameroon\u2019s North-West and South-West since October 2016 \u2013 many of these in the main city of Bamenda.<\/p>\n Mr Wesco, 44, had moved with his family to Bambili, which is on the outskirts of Bamenda, from the US state of Indiana.<\/p>\n The Wesco family had spent years raising funds for their move to Cameroon, said Pastor Dave Halyaman of the US-based Believers Baptist Church, which sent the family on the mission.<\/p>\n He told the BBC that Mr Wesco\u2019s wife, Stephanie, had described her husband\u2019s death as a tragedy but she said that she believed God allowed it for a purpose.<\/p>\n He said the church was being assisted by the US State Department in their efforts to bring the Wesco family home to the US \u201chopefully in a week or less\u201d.<\/p>\n The crisis in Anglophone Cameroon:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A US missionary has been killed in Cameroon about two weeks after moving there with his wife and eight children. Charles Wesco was in a car with his wife, son, another missionary and a driver on their way to a market in the city of Bamenda when he was shot. He was caught in cross-fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/E51B\/production\/_104115685_cameroonbamendanwsw9761018.png\")
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