Two suicide bombers die in Cameroon

Two suicide bombers died on Thursday when they targeted a school in northern Cameroon, local officials said, the latest attack in the central African country which is struggling to contain violence blamed on Boko Haram militants.

There were no other reported deaths in the double suicide bomb attack, though some people were injured, one official said.

“The double attack occurred in the public school in the town of Kerawa,” the official told Reuters.

While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, northern Cameroon has become the scene of increasingly frequent suicide attacks as Boko Haram militants step up cross-border violence that has also affected Chad and Niger.

An attack targeting a market in north Cameroon three days ago killed 32 people and wounded 66 in one of the deadliest attacks in the country to date.