Cameroon soldier killed on disputed Bakassi peninsula

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YAOUNDE-- A Cameroon soldier was killed and another seriously injured this weekend in the first deadly incident reported in a decade on the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula disputed by Cameroon and Nigeria, according to a senior military officer in Yaounde.

"A lance-sergeant was killed and a warrant officer seriously wounded . when Nigerian troops fired rocket-propelled grenades at a Cameroonian security post," the officer told IRIN on Sunday.

Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, the UN's Special Representative for West Africa who is spearheading negotiations on the disputed peninsula, confirmed on Radio France Internationale that there had been a death over the weekend.