Boko Haram terrorists
No fewer than 10 persons were killed and 100 wounded yesterday when a bomb went off near an army camp in northern Cameroun, where soldiers are battling Boko Haram terrorists.
No fewer than 10 persons were killed and 100 wounded yesterday when a bomb went off near an army camp in northern Cameroun, where soldiers are battling Boko Haram terrorists.
Army and police sources said another blast hit a market. Both blasts were suspected to have been carried out by Boko Haram members.
The attacks, according to an online news medium, Premium Times,
targeted Kerawa, a town in the far north region that was the scene of
clashes between Boko Haram militants and government soldiers in
February.
“For the moment, there are around 10 dead and about 100 wounded in the attack near the camp.
“We’re still awaiting a report from our teams on the bombing at the market,” a senior army officer based in northern Cameroon said.
A police official in the town quoted the same figure while a local
government official gave a provisional toll of six dead and 87 wounded.
The first bomb exploded in the morning in the market in Kerawa and the
other soon after, near a camp housing infantry soldiers stationed in the
north to fight the terrorist group.
Another local government official said he had been told that the attacks were carried out by female bombers.
Boko Haram has stepped up attacks on Chad, Niger and Cameroun after
they took part in a regional offensive against it earlier this year.
The insurgents were blamed for a series of suicide bombings in the town
of Maroua, also in the far north, that killed dozens of people in July.
Cameroun has deployed thousands of troops to its northern border where
the militants carry out regular raids, killing some villagers and
kidnapping others.
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