Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill 26, Wounds Dozens In Cameroon Market

 

At least 26 people were killed on Monday with many wounded when three suicide bombers blew themselves up at a market in the far north of Cameroon, a region often targeted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram.

Police said the assailants hit a local market in Bodo village near the frontier with Nigeria in one of the most deadly attacks in the Far North since 2013.

“An initial toll shows 29 dead and around 30 injured,” a police source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity and saying the toll included the three suicide bombers.

Nearly 1,200 people have been killed since 2013 when Boko Haram began attacking Cameroon’s Far North, an area which borders the Islamist group’s stronghold in northeastern Nigeria.