Six Killed in N. Cameroon as Women Carried out Bombings

Local Editor

Two female bombers killed at least six civilians in a northern Cameroon region bordering militancy-wracked Nigeria.

According to media reports, the Wednesday assaults hit the village of Nguetchewe, where people joined the follow-up to a funeral ceremony.

The blasts also killed the attackers, who joined the mourners pretending to be family members, and injured between 30 and 50 people.

So far, Cameroon has lost some 1,200 people to attacks by the Nigerian Takfiri group of Boko Haram, which spread its campaign of terrorism to the country in 2013.

Relatively, over 100 people have reportedly been killed in the far northern region in about 20 bomb blasts blamed on Boko Haram since July 2015.

Meanwhile, Nguetchewe witnessed a bombing attack against a mosque on January 18, which killed at least four people and injured two others.

Boko Haram started its campaign of militancy in 2009 and has so far taken the lives of at least 17,000 people. Its crimes include bombings, terrorist operations, and militant attacks, which it has also been carrying out against neighboring Chad and other African nations.

Accordingly, the terrorists pledged allegiance to the Takfiri "ISIS" group, which is primarily operating inside Syria and Iraq.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team