Breaking: Suicide bomber kills 12 in mosque near Nigerian border

News Express |13th Jan 2016 | 3,099

A suicide bomber has killed 12 people at a mosque in northern Cameroon, according to an AFP report.

The report quoted security officials as saying that the attack took place in an area regularly targeted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorists.

A security source quoted by AFP said the blast struck the mosque in the village of Kouyape, in Cameroon’s far north near the Nigerian border, at morning prayers.

•File Photo shows a mosque attacked by Boko Haram terrorists.

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