said Thursday.
The
bombings, which took place on Wednesday evening in Waza near the Nigerian
border, targeted a busy area in the market town, the sources said.
The bombers
struck an area with “restaurants, telephone cabins and kiosks”, a local
official said.
“The town
has been sealed off. Nobody can enter and nobody can leave,” the source said,
adding that some of the wounded were in “quite serious” condition.
Though Boko
Haram was born in Nigeria, the Islamic State-affiliated group has carried out
frequent attacks in Cameroon, Chad and Niger, prompting the formation of a
regional force to fight back.
Cameroon’s
Far North region, which borders Nigeria, has seen a resurgence in attacks
blamed on Boko Haram after months of relative calm.
Six
civilians were killed in mid-June in a double suicide attack in Kolofata, and
two others died in Limani at the start of last month when a female bomber blew
herself up near the town’s public school.
Some 200,000
Cameroonians from the Far North region have fled their homes in fear of the
violence.
AFP
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