At least five people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on
Sunday in the northern Cameroon town of Mora.
Cameroonian
military says the incident is the latest in what appears to be the a
cross-border attack by Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militant group.
The
dead included two civilians and the two female suicide bombers, who detonated
themselves at around 8 a.m. when they were stopped by a police officer near the
entrance to the town.
The
police officer was also killed.
Boko
Haram has been waging a six-year insurrection to establish an Islamist state in
the northeast of Nigeria.
The
group has killed thousands and displaced 2.1 million people, most of whom are
children.
In
April 2014, the group gained worldwide notoriety when it kidnapped more than
270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in northern Nigeria’s Borno state.
The
militant group controlled vast swathes of territory across three states in
northeastern Nigeria at the beginning of 2015 but was pushed out by Nigerian
troops with the help of Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
Following a heavy loss due to
the renewed efforts by the Military, Boko Haram factions have reverted to
guerrilla tactics, raiding villages for supplies and bombing soft targets like
places of worships, markets and bus stations.
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