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Cameroon: 4 suicide bombers attack market killing at least 32 (Updated)

Cameroon: 4 suicide bombers attack market killing at least 32 (Updated)

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Four suicide bombers have attacked the Bodo central market located in the Logone-et-Chari department of the Far North region of Cameroon killing at least 32 with 86 injured, officials say.

BREAKING: Twenty-five dead in suicide bomb attack on north #Cameroon market https://t.co/dOIK8Uws7D

— Reuters Africa (@ReutersAfrica) January 25, 2016

At least 32 people have been killed in what is reported to be a three suicide-attack with 86 reportedly injured.

Two suicide bombers struck the central market while the other two hit the entrance and exit points of the market.

According to a local official, the explosions were suicide attacks connecting them to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

The country has been a target for Boko Haram insurgents in recent years killing scores of people in a series of attacks and injuring several others.

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