Thirteen civilians, eight of them children, died Friday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in an attack on a village in northern Cameroon by Boko Haram jihadists, a Traditional Chief and a Police Officer told AFP.
Cameroon’s Far North region is grappling with deadly incursions from neighbouring Nigeria, where an insurgency launched by Boko Haram in 2009 has killed tens of thousands of people.
It was the third Boko Haram attack this month in the region.
It was also a signal to neighbours Nigeria and Niger that the terrorists may have recruited new set of suicide bombers and ready to unleash them.
