Suicide bomber 'girls' kill 24 in Cameroon

Army sources say two girls have carried out suicide attacks in a woman's market in Cameroon, killing at least 24 people.

Two suicide bombers posing as food vendors have killed at least 24 people and injured 112 others in a market in Meme, northern Cameroon, security sources say.

It was the first time the town of Meme has been targeted but there have been previous assaults near the town of Mora, which lies near the border of northeastern Nigeria.

Last week Cameroon's military killed 162 Boko Haram militants and arrested about 100 others in an assault, according to government spokesman Issa Tchiroma.

A Cameroonian military source said two girls carried out the attack.

Girls and young women have carried out a spate of suicide bombings in the region.

"These two girls took advantage of the fact that it was the woman's market," said another military source.

"They came like vendors, except they had explosives in their cooking pots."

The death toll may still rise.

There has so far been no official claim of responsibility for the attack.


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