A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and left at least one other injured in an attack on a mosque in northern Cameroon on Wednesday, Reuters news agency reports officials in the Far North region.
This is the latest attack linked to the insurgency by Islamists militant group Boko Haram.
The terror group whose origins are in north eastern Nigeria has stepped up attacks in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger since last year. Many of the recent attacks in Cameroon have been carried out by women.
“The suicide attack took place at 5:40 a.m. (2340 ET) in a mosque at Kouyape. There were 13 deaths including the man who blew himself up and one wounded,” said a senior local official who declined to be identified.
Another senior local official is reported to have said that at least 10 people died.
Boko Haram has waged a six-year campaign for an Islamist state in north eastern Nigeria.
Neighbouring countries joined an offensive against the militants this year, prompting the conflict to spill across their borders, displacing tens of thousands of people.
