Kolofata: 2 suicide bombers blow themselves up

Two girls stuffed with bombs blew themselves up this Monday in the Cameroonian town of Kolofata (Far North), making no other victim, APA learned from security sources.

After a few weeks of relative calm, suicide bombings and other criminal incursions perpetrated by the Islamist sect Boko Haram, seem to have started in this border area with Nigeria.

Last Thursday, for example, nine alleged members of the jihadist movement were eliminated by the army in Limani, near Kolofata, while two Cameroonian hostages, kidnapped a few days earlier, were liberated at Barkari, the Nigerian side of the border, thanks to the intervention of a vigilante committee member.

Still, according to the authorities, we are witnessing a slowdown of terrorist acts of Boko Haram through the concerted action of armies of Cameroon and Nigeria, supported by the Joint Multinational Force (JMF), launched early April as “Operation tentacle” on their land border to carry the blow to the Islamic sect.

The said operation, we learn still, is to crisscross the entire border area and to conduct coordinated attacks.