Two Cameroonians on their way to Europe via the Sahara have been killed in the Moroccan town of Tanger, after a violent fight which opposed some youths of the town and some immigrants, The Post learnt.

The incident took place recently at the Bukhalef neighbourhood in the outskirts of Tanger, after a Moroccan and another from sub-Saharan Africa began fighting. After some minutes of vigorous blow exchange, some immigrants who witnessed the exchange decided to join the two men.

Faced with the gravity of the over seven hour fight, some passersby ran into the nearby Police Post to report the exchange but no officer turned out to the battle ground to resolve or dissuade them from fighting.

At the end of the fight, three people were reported dead, two Cameroonians and a Senegalese. The murderers immediately fled from the scene. These killings, according to many Cameroonians in the area, are very frequent. A good case in point is the killing of a Cameroonian in December 2013 after he tried resisting some police men.

It should be noted that Bukhalef is a neighbourhood inhabited mainly by sub-Saharan Africans with a majority of them being Cameroonians and Senegalese because of the low rent charges in the area.