Cameroon: Two female Boko Haram bombers killed in suicide blast in the Far North region

Two female Boko Haram bombers have blown themselves up in Cameroon near a school in the country’s far north, a day after the terrorists warned in a chilling video that they were going to behead President Paul Biya.

Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the suicide attack took place in Mora, a northern town not far from the border with Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau’s men are still very strong.

The suicide attack occurred behind a high school full of students on Monday morning, but luckily, only the terrorists were killed, the newspaper said. 

On Sunday, a video showed Boko Haram men shooting presumably in the Sambisa forest, and a commander who was speaking in French was heard warning President Biya that he was going to behead him with his left hand.

He said the terrorists were on their way to Maroua, Garoua and Ngaoundere, as well as other Cameroonian cities to wreak havoc.

They displayed shoes and helmets and other military items they said were abandoned by the Cameroonian troops who were too afraid of them.

At least 150 soldiers and policemen have been killed while fighting Boko Haram in Cameroon and about 2000 civilians have been murdered there in over 500 attacks, including more than 50 suicide bombings, by those President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has branded the “godless, mindless” militants.

Last December, President Buhari declared that Boko Haram had been decimated after the fall of camp zero, once the military base for the terrorists inside the Sambisa forest in Borno state.

But recent incidents in Nigeria and Cameroon show that the war against those who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March 2015 and have modelled their barbarism after the Middle East killers, is far from over.