Armed attackers have killed two people and wounded 11 others in one of Cameroon’s restive anglophone regions, local authorities said.
Cameroon’s primarily English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions have been gripped by conflict since separatists declared independence in 2017.
It followed decades of grievances over perceived discrimination by the francophone majority.
President Paul Biya, 91, who has ruled Cameroon with an iron fist for more than 41 years, has resisted calls for wider autonomy and responded with a crackdown.
The latest attack took place in a bar late on Saturday in Bamenda, the main city in the Northwest, authorities said in a statement seen by AFP on Tuesday.
An “armed terrorist group on motorbikes” threw “two explosive grenades at people before disappearing,” said the statement published late Monday.
A local decree has banned the use of bikes from 6:30 pm until 6:30 am local time in the centre of Bamenda until further notice.
Authorities in the Mezam department where the city is located condemned “a barbaric act on civilians” and urged people to work with officials and security forces to find those responsible and bring them to justice.
Both the separatists and government forces have been accused of atrocities in the fighting, which broke out at the end of 2016.
Human Rights Watch estimates that since then, at least 6,000 civilians have been killed by the government and separatist forces.
