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| Women suicide bombers kill 3 in Cameroon mosque attack |
| 2015-11-10 |
| [AlAhram] Three people died in a fresh attack on a mosque by two women jacket wallahs Monday in northern 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... , a region repeatedly targeted by 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... Islamists, residents and security sources said. "A (woman) kamikaze blew herself up near a mosque in Fotokol. A second one was neutralised and killed. It was obvious the two suicide bombers were targeting the mosque," a local source told AFP. "Three civilians also died," added a security source who asked not to be named. The attack was similar to others in the remote region bordering Lake Chad claimed by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, and occurred 24 hours after two suicide bombers left two dead and 14 injured across the border in Chadian town Ngouboua on Sunday. Both Ngouboua and Fotokol have come under attack several times from Boko Haram fighters in the past. Monday's suicide kaboom, the 16th in Cameroon's far north since July, highlights the persisting threat of Boko Haram attacks in the Lake Chad area straddling the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria. The group, believed to be hiding out in Nigeria's nearby Sambisa forest and the lake's many islands, is held responsible for 17,000 deaths and for making 2.5 million people homeless in its six-year campaign of violence. |
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