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Africa Subsaharan
Double Suicide Attack Claims 30 in North Cameroon
2015-09-04
[ALMANAR.LB] At least 30 people were killed in the far north of 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...
 on Thursday in two successive suicide kabooms, military and police sources said.

The first bombing took place shortly before noon in the marketplace of Kerawa, a city on the border with Nigeria, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
.

It was followed by a second attack about 200 meters (yards) from a military camp, said a police officer who asked not to be identified.

At least 30 people were killed, the sources said.

Some 50 people were killed in July in the same region in five suicide attacks blamed on Nigeria's 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...
 terrorist group.

Cameroon is part of a five-nation coalition fighting Boko Haram with Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Benin.
Al Ahram adds:
One local government official confirmed the attacks and said he had been told that the attacks had been carried out by female bombers and was travelling to the scene of the blasts to verify exactly what happened.
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