The bombings, which took
place on Wednesday evening in Waza near the Nigerian border, targeted a busy
area in the market town, the sources said.
Two bombers blew themselves
up in northeastern Cameroon killing 14 people and injuring 30 people in an
attack likely staged by Boko Haram jihadists, security sources said Thursday.
The bombers struck an area
with “restaurants, telephone cabins and kiosks”, a local official said.
“The town has been sealed
off. Nobody can enter and nobody can leave,” the source said, adding that some
of the wounded were in “quite serious” condition.
Though Boko Haram was born
in Nigeria, the Islamic State-affiliated group has carried out frequent attacks
in Cameroon, Chad and Niger, prompting the formation of a regional force to
fight back.
Cameroon’s Far North
region, which borders Nigeria, has seen a resurgence in attacks blamed on Boko
Haram after months of relative calm.
Six civilians were killed
in mid-June in a double suicide attack in Kolofata, and two others died in
Limani at the start of last month when a female bomber blew herself up near the
town’s public school.
Some 200,000 Cameroonians
from the Far North region have fled their homes in fear of the violence.
AFP
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