At least 16 people died in a suspected Boko Haram suicide blast in Cameroon as Nigeria reported yet another strike in Maiduguri, Borno State.
The attack in Nigeria happened as President Muhammadu Buhari announced the sacking of the country’s top military officers.
The victims of the attack in Cameroon’s Fotokol Town included 14 civilians.
Reports say two suicide bombers, wearing Islamic veils, set off explosions from the Nigerian border town of Gambarou before encroaching into the Cameroonian territory.
They targeted the busy Fotokol market, behind the Gardoumba Primary School and a military base of the Cameroon Rapid Intervention Unit.
One of the suicide bombers was found dead behind the military base, though the base registered no casualties.
Amongst the civilians killed was the chief medical officer of the Fotokol hospital.
It is feared the death toll could rise due to the number of the injured civilians who have been ferried to medical centres in Maroua.
The Cameroon government had not made any official statement on the attack.
According to a journalist and publisher of the French Language bi-weekly newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, Mr Guibai Gatamaa, the attack started in a border town in Nigeria Sunday night.
Source: Africa review