ICC Note: A suicide bomber killed 11 people in northern Cameroon on Thursday, June 30 in a suicide attack where Boko Haram is the suspected culprit. The male assailant blew himself up near the Nigerian border with Cameroon late Wednesday night, resulting in the immediate death of seven civilians, and the injury of four others who died later. The attack comes in a long string of cross-border assaults Boko Haram continues to perpetrate in Cameroon. The Islamist terror group regularly uses suicide bombers, often women and children, to target civilians. These assaults have reportedly displaced 190,000 Cameroonians, and the Boko Haram has used Cameroon as recruiting grounds, either by spreading their radical Islamic ideology or by abducting women and children and forcing them to join. The group’s late trend of targeting highly populated places and general populations comes in part as a result of recent military successes in the region pushing Boko Haram to adopt unconventional warfare tactics. Historically, they have notoriously targeted Christians, both with their rhetoric and their violent actions, subjecting communities to mass murder, rape, abduction, and church destruction.

06/30/2016, Djakana, Cameroon (Vanguard) – A suicide bombing by a Boko Haram jihadist has killed 11 people in northern Cameroon, a provincial governor said Thursday, warning civilians not to breach special security measures aimed at preventing such attacks.

It was the latest in a spate of raids blamed on the Nigeria-based Islamist militant group in the area, which have driven tens of thousands of people from their homes.

A security source said the attacker blew himself up in the town of Djakana near the Nigerian border overnight.

“Seven people were killed immediately, including the bomber,” the source said, adding that most of the victims were members of a local vigilante group tasked with hunting down Boko Haram fighters.

“They were gathered in a video room when the attacker entered and triggered his explosives,” the security source said.

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