12 killed' in northern Cameroon suicide bombings

   Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed no fewer than twelve civilians and a Chadian soldier in attacks on the northern Cameroonian town of Fotokol late on Sunday, an official said.


The first bomber attacked a bar near a Cameroon special forces (BIR) camp just after sundown as many were breaking the Ramadan fast, the too military officer said, asking not to be named.

"The second explosion followed as soldiers approached the bar," he said.

L'Oeil du Sahel, a newspaper in northern Cameroon, said the two attackers wore burqas.

Boko Haram which wants to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria has stepped up attacks in neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger since it pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State terror group.

A man dressed in a woman's burqa blew himself up in the main market in Chad's capital N'Djamena killing 15 people on Saturday.