UN condemns Sunday's attack in Cameroon

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned the two suicide bombings on Sunday in Kangaleri, Cameroon, and attributed to Islamists Boko Haram.

Emphasizing that since July 2015 northern Cameroon has undergone five deadly suicide attacks, Ban said in a statement that "nothing can justify such violence and indiscriminate killings."

He "reiterates his solidarity with the people of Cameroon and renews the UN support to the Government of Cameroon and the countries of the Lake Chad Basin in their fight against terrorism."

In a unanimous statement adopted Monday, the Security Council also "condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks" committed Saturday to Sunday in Chad and Cameroon.

The 15 member countries "underlined the need to bring to justice" the perpetrators, organizers and instigators of these attacks. They called on all member states to "actively cooperate" with the Chadian and Cameroonian authorities to achieve this.

A double suicide bombing on Sunday hit the far north of Cameroon, killing at least nine people, a day after another deadly attack in Chad and Nigeria attributed to the Islamists Boko Haram.

Both countries are part of the coalition against the insurgents who for several months have perpetrated bloody attacks far beyond north-eastern Nigeria, their historic stronghold to strike neighboring states of the Lake Chad Basin: Chad, Cameroon and Niger.