Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – Yet unidentified gunmen opened fire and killed Gendarmes in Isangele in the Bakassi Peninsula in the morning of Sunday, October 9, 2011.

Cameroon’s Minister of State for Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, Marafa Hamidou Yaya in a press briefing on October 9 night, on the general conduct of the presidential election said the two Gendarmes were on mission to secure the electoral process.

A military base of Cameroon's Rapid Intervention Unit - Cameroon's Reaction Force on the Idabato, Bakassi peninsula, Cameroon.

Press reports say the pirates also held two other Gendarmes hostage and took them to yet an unidentified destination. Minister of State Marafa said government was taking all measures to tract down the pirates.

Mr Marafa stating that the Bakassi killings was an isolated incident, said the presidential poll went on in an atmosphere of calm, order and transparency.

He said order and security reigned throughout Cameroon. The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, Marafa Hamidou Yaya said, was the permanent link between the government and the independent electoral body, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM).

Voting in the October 9, 2011 presidential election in Cameroon in which 23 candidates contested in the race to the Etoudi Presidential Palace, took place in 24,591 polling stations, 79 of them in diplomatic and consular missions abroad, Mr Marafa disclosed.

He said on August 30, 2011 when registration ended, Elections Cameroon registered 7,550,700 electors, with 25,572 of them abroad.

The election was monitored by 8,350 observers, 77 of whom were from diplomatic missions represented in Cameroon, 451 from international organizations and foreign associations, while 7,822 were national observers.