26 killed as Boko Haram bombs three villages in Cameroon
Ibraheem Gafar
No fewer than 26 people were killed Monday in three separate suicide attacks in the far north of Cameroon.
The region, according to police, is often targeted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group.
The attacks, which targeted the local market in Bodo, near its border with Nigeria, is one of the deadliest incidents to hit the region.
“An initial toll shows 29 dead and around 30 injured,” a police source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP, saying the toll included the three suicide bombers. Since 2013, nearly 1,200 people have died in Boko Haram attacks in Cameroon’s far north, according to a toll given this month by Communications Minister Issa Chiroma Bakary.
