A double suicide bombing killed at least nine people and wounded 30 others yesterday at a camp housing Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram militants in northern Cameroon.
Local government officials said the twin blasts that tore through the camp in the town of Kolofata at about 6 a.m. local time.
“It was unbearable. People were screaming. Others were moaning. It was total horror,” said a policeman present at the scene of the bombing.
Northern Cameroon has in recent years suffered from the overflow of violence linked to Boko Haram insurgents.
Nigerian refugees have flooded across the border and local residents have been forced to flee their homes.
Boko Haram launches frequent cross-border raids in a bid to carve out an Islamic caliphate.
Its eight-year insurgency has killed more than 15,000 and displaced two million people in the Lake Chad region.
Villages and towns in the area have regularly been targeted by suicide bombers.
A similar attack in Kolofata killed nine people in September 2015.
Thousands of troops have been deployed to the area in a bid to stem the violence.
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