Cameroon: Suicide Explosion Kills Two And Injures One In Mora

A suicide explosion early Friday, 23.06.2017 in Mora, Far North region of Cameroon has left two dead and one seriously injured. The two dead are the suspected Boko Haram insurgents.

Attacks in the border area also appear to have increased since the start of Ramadan.

The Council of Muslim Dignitaries and Imams of Cameroon has dispatched its members to the area to educate the population and instruct local Muslim clerics to be watchful.

The council’s president, Moussa Oumarou, says terrorists use this holy month of fasting to deceive young Muslims that if they die fighting for Allah they will go straight to paradise. He says poverty makes youth more vulnerable to that message.

The governor of the Far North region, Midjiyawa Bakari, declined to comment on the cause of the violence, but said residents should remain on alert.

Throughout its seven-year insurgency, Boko Haram has attacked government and civilian targets in Cameroon and neighbouring Nigeria to win territory and instill fear across northern Nigeria. Leaders promise young foot soldiers martyrdom, conscripting them and sending them into battle lightly armed and with little training. The group has abducted thousands of women and children.

Today's attack comes barely two days after suspected militants killed 10 people in another suicide attack in the town of Kolofata-Northern Cameroon.Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon since 2014, killing about 2000 civilians and at least 150 soldiers and policemen and displacing hundreds of thousands of people in a war that does not seem to go away.