Suicide attackers hit Cameroun’s marketplace

AT least 29 people have been reported killed when at about three suicide bombers carried out a series of attacks in northern Cameroun, Al Jazeera has learned.

The coordinated strikes occurred in the village of Bodo near the border with Nigeria yesterday, a source in Cameroun’s military said.

The first explosions struck the road leading to the market. The second and third blasts hit the entrance and interior of the marketplace.

It was the second bombing incident to hit Cameroun this year. On January 13, a suicide bomber killed 12 people and wounded at least one other in an attack on a mosque in northern Cameroun.

Last December, two female suicide bombers also blew themselves up in Bodo.

The attacks occurred about 27 km from the town of Fotokol, also near the Nigerian border, which had been the subject of previous attacks last year.

No one has claimed responsibility for the latest attacks, but Cameroun and neighbouring countries have been carrying out offensives against the Boko Haram group, which declared allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2015.

Boko Haram’s grip on the region has suffered as a result of assaults launched by local armies and a multinational force.