UPDATE 2-Cameroon says kills 10 raiders in disputed Bakassi

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By Tansa Musa

YAOUNDE, July 24 (Reuters) - Cameroonian soldiers killed 10 gunmen who attacked them on Thursday in the Bakassi peninsula, a long-disputed territory Nigeria is transferring to Cameroon under a World Court order, Cameroon's Defence Ministry said.

A little-known armed Nigerian group opposed to the handover of the oil-rich territory, which claimed it carried out the attack, said only four of its men were killed and threatened more violence until the transfer is renegotiated.

It was the second attack on Cameroonian positions in Bakassi within a week by the Niger Delta Defence and Security Council (NDDSC), whose members attacked the Cameroonian security patrol in the area at the weekend.

Nigerian forces are due to complete their long-delayed full withdrawal from Bakassi in mid-August to comply with a 2002 World Court order.

But some Nigerians are opposed to the handover, including some of local inhabitants, most of whom are fishermen. Some Nigerian politicians also voiced their opposition to the handover last year.

"The locality of Kombo-Abedimo was attacked by an armed band ... on three speed boats," Cameroon's Defence Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state radio.

"Following a riposte from our naval defence forces, 10 of the attackers were killed, eight others captured and an important stock of arms and ammunition on one of the speed boats seized," it said.