At least four Cameroonian soldiers, including a general who was coordinating the fight against Nigerian Boko Haram militant Islamists, were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash, reports say.

“We lost four men, including the general”, named as Jacob Kodji, as well as a colonel, a senior military official who is involved in the fight against Boko Haram told AFP news agency.

Here is the photo of the general that died in the chopper crash:

Gen Kodji was the leader of Emergence 4, the name given to one of the operations launched by Cameroon against Boko Haram.

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