Cameroon's military says it kills at least 43 separatists

Cameroon's military says it has killed at least 43 armed separatists fighting for the creation of an English-speaking state in the Central African nation.

Gen Agha Robinson, the commander of troops fighting the separatists, said Friday the military has destroyed at least three camps in operations since Thursday in Bali village in the Mezam administrative area and Abu village in the Fundong administrative area in the North West region.

He says the military seized a huge consignment of guns, ammunition, machetes, motorcycles and drugs.

Robinson says many separatists are on the run and the military is tracking them. He says the local population helped inform troops of separatist hideouts.

Hundreds have been killed in Cameroon's South West and North West regions in months of fighting between the military and separatists.