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| Africa Subsaharan |
| At Least Six Dead in Cameroon Double Suicide Attack |
| 2016-02-11 |
| [AnNahar] At least six non-combatants were killed and over 30 injured Wednesday in a double suicide kaboom in 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... 's northern border region with Nigeria, which is regularly attacked 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... fighters, security sources said. The attackers, who were also killed, were both female, said a source. "Six non-combatants were killed as well as two jacket wallahs who blew themselves up" during a funeral wake in the village of Nguetchewe, a source told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that between 30-50 people were maimed. "The villagers were gathered for the wake when two suicide attackers joined them, pretending to be family members," said the source. The two female bombers "blew themselves up at 6:20 am, just when people who had spent the night there were preparing for a meal." A police source in the region said several children, including a boy aged six and a 15-year-old, were among the victims. At least one member of a local committee set up in response to the upsurge in Islamic attacks was also killed. The most seriously injured were evacuated to a regional hospital in Maroua. It is the fifth suicide attack in Cameroon's far north region since the start of the year. On January 18 four people were killed in an attack at Nguetchewe's mosque. Nguetchewe is a small village near the border with Nigeria where a French priest, Georges Vandenbeusch, was kidnapped in November 2013. He was held for 50 days before being released. The kidnapping were blamed on Boko Haram, which has since sworn allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group based in Syria and Iraq. |
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