One of the security sources said a woman and her children were among
the dead. Two other security sources said a gendarme had been killed.
Suspected Boko Haram
militants detonated two suicide bombs in a village in northern Cameroon
on Saturday afternoon, killing at least five people, security sources
and an official told Reuters.
The attacks in the
village of Dabanga are thought to be the latest in a series of
cross-border raids into Cameroon's Far North Region by members of the
Nigeria-based Islamist militants.
"The provisional
toll is seven dead, including the two suicide bombers, as well as two
soldiers injured," said a senior government source, requesting
anonymity.
One of the security sources said a
woman and her children were among the dead. Two other security sources
said a gendarme had been killed.
Cameroon troops
are part of an 8,700-strong regional task-force designed to defeat Boko
Haram which has killed thousands and displaced millions of people in its
bid to create a caliphate in northern Nigeria.
While
authorities insist the force has been functional since August, there
has been no sign of joint operations at a time when the Boko Haram
insurgency appears to be intensifying.
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