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Motorcycle suicide bomber kills three in north Cameroon market
[Foreign Desk News] A jacket wallah on a cycle of violence killed three people and maimed 24 on Sunday at a market in north Cameroon...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , where Islamist Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... is waging an insurgency for a breakaway Islamic state across four countries, authorities said. A senior military official said the bomber was also killed in the attack in Mora, in Cameroon's Far North province. He said that it was possible one of the three victims was also on the bike. Another security source said authorities were convinced this was the work of Boko Haram. A regional offensive against Boko Haram led by Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger - the four countries most affected by the Lion of Islam group - has chased it out of towns in the Lake Chad region. In response, the group has launched a guerrilla campaign mostly targeting the civilian population. "Sunday is a big market day," Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma said by telephone, confirming the details and corpse count in the Mora attack. "There were also six people seriously maimed who were transported out by helicopter to Maroua." He said that "the situation is currently under control".
There are currently more than 8,000 Cameroonian soldiers deployed in the far north to counter Boko Haram, and there is a large military base for the motorized infantry brigades in the Mora area. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-22 |
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