11 suicide bombings and hundreds of deaths in two months

'Suicide attacks', a terminology Cameroonians are now familiar with and which initially sounded far from the country, a few months ago.

Terrorists now apply this procedure almost every week. Mora is the last town within the national territory to have paid the costs on Sunday, September 20, 2015. According to authorities, two girls, armed with explosive charges and accompanied by their guide were planning to explode in the Mora market which is always busy on Sundays.

They were intercepted around Galdi, by a vigilant policeman. Inspector Elie Lade lost his life in a heroic manner while conducting the control. On the spot, one suicide bombers and his guide also died. The second kamikaze blew herself up when she met a peasant who was coming from the farm. The terrorist and the poor peasant died on the spot. There were five deaths in total.

This double attack brings to 11 the number of suicide attacks recorded in Cameroon, more precisely in the Far North since the month of July 2015.

“A total of 11 suicide bombings, for a sinister record over 100 people dead and nearly 300 injured,” wrote the daily journal, Emergence which added that the NGO, Amnesty International, in its latest report, recorded of 400 persons killed in the Far North since January 2014.

Emergence thus recalled the different two-month terrorist attacks recorded in Cameroon. The first of these suicide attacks took place in Fotokol on July 12; a double attack that officially killed 13 people. Another double bombing in Maroua on July 22, claimed the lives of 15 people.

The capital of the Far North was once again targeted on July 25 with a record of 20 deaths and 60 wounded. The double attack of Kerawa on September 3 with some 30 deaths and nearly 150 injured. There was another double suicide bombing in Kolofata on September 13 which claimed the lives of 9 people and 20 injured.