About 10 people were killed and 100 wounded on Thursday when a bomb
went off near an army camp in northern Cameroon, where
soldiers are
battling Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria, army and police sources said.
Another blast hit a market. feared
The
attacks 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 town told Reuters 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 Nigerian Islamist
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 the countries bordering its northeast
Nigerian stronghold – Chad, Niger and Cameroon – after they took part in
a regional offensive against it earlier this year.
The Islamist
fighters 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.
Cameroon
has deployed thousands of troop to its northern border where militants
carry out regular raids, killing some villagers and kidnapping others.
Source: PM News
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