Suicide attacks killed at least 13 in Cameroon

A twin suicide attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in the northern Cameroon town of Fotokol late on Sunday killed at least 13 people including a Chadian soldier, authorities said. Cameroon president's office said in a statement on Monday that 10 civilians, a Chadian soldier and the two assailants were killed in the attack. It added that seven soldiers, four from Chad and three from Cameroon, were among 17 people wounded in the attack.
The first explosion went off inside a bar near a Cameroon special forces camp just after sundown as people were breaking the Ramadan fast, a senior Cameroon military officer told Reuters earlier, asking not to be named. "The second explosion followed as soldiers approached the bar," the officer said. L'Oeil du Sahel, a newspaper in northern Cameroon, said the two attackers wore women's burkas.