Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Cameroon vigilantes thwart suicide attack
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Local self-defense groups in the north of Cameroon have
thwarted a rash of attempted suicide bombings targeting civilians near the
border with Nigeria in the past week, officials say.
During early morning prayers Monday, the civilian group
in this northern border town faced one such test. A young man appeared for the
first time in their mosque, raising suspicions, said Muslim cleric Bouba Garba.
When the stranger moved toward the imam, shouting that he
should pray for peace in the world, vigilantes shot and killed the stranger
with a bow and poisoned arrow. Then they used a long stick to search him from a
distance, detonating the man’s explosive vest.
No one else was killed in the incident. But Aladji Dama,
42, who heads the civilian group, said he was having trouble hearing after the
loud explosion. Others were wounded, too.
Ndjock Isaac, one of the senior military health personnel
based in the town of Mora, said the military treated people wounded in the
mosque attack.
At least 12 would-be suicide bombers have tried to carry
out attacks over the past week, according to Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of the
Far North region.
Bakari credited the vigilante groups with stopping
hundreds of suicide bombers in the past three months, and expressed gratitude
on behalf of the government and Cameroon people.
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram deploys suicide
bombers to cross over from its stronghold in northern Nigeria to wage terror.
Last month, UNICEF reported that the group increasingly has been using youngsters to carry out its deadly
missions. But Bakari noted that three women in their 40s were among the
would-be bombers killed recently in Cameroon.
The self-defense groups have been collaborating closely
with soldiers from Cameroon’s Rapid Intervention Brigade.
Isaac said the soldiers make sure they spend at least 18
hours with vigilantes every day. The soldiers' superiors have asked that they
share their food with the defense groups and take care of their health needs,
he added.
Cameroon authorities are investigating whether the recent
female suicide bombers were among the hundreds of Cameroonian women abducted by
Boko Haram, Bakari said.
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