Suspected Boko Haram Suicide Bombers Hit School in Cameroon

FILE: The carnage of a Boko Haram bomb

 – Two suspected insurgents of the Islamist group Boko Haram yesterday, Thursday January 28, attacked a school in Kerewa, a Cameroonian town near the border with Nigeria. The bomb explosion took the lives of the suiciders and that of two others while injuring scores of people. Details of the attacks are still sketchy and the government is yet to make a statement about it. The suicide bombers, we learned were two children.

The attack comes just barely days after the last attack last Monday involving four coordinated suicide bombs; one of the biggest suicide attacks in recent days and one day after the explosion of the armed depot of the multinational force fighting Boko Haram based in Mora.

Boko Haram has kept pace with its strategy of using suicide bombers but has constantly been changing its target. Sometime ago it targeted private homes and later on targeted markets. Today it has attacked a school compound. In its three years of insurgency in Northern Cameroon this is the first time Boko Haram is targeting schools.