About 19 Dead in Northern Cameroon Blasts

The death toll in a double suicide bombing on Thursday in the northern Cameroon town of Kerawa has risen to 19 dead and 143 wounded, a senior local government official said. One bomb went off near an army camp in the Far North region and another hit a market. Cameroon is part of a regional coalition fighting Islamic militant group Boko Haram, which has waged an insurgency in northern Nigeria for six years and attacked neighbouring states.     The attacks targeted...

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