A deadly double suicide bombing killed at least six individuals and injured several civilians in Cameroon early Wednesday morning. Two militants, both reported to be females, carried out the attack in a funeral wake at Nguetchewe, a village located near the country's border with Nigeria. While no group has claimed responsibility yet, the notorious Boko Haram militant group is supected to be behind the atrocity.
"The villagers were gathered for the wake when two suicide attackers joined them, pretending to be family members," according to AFP. The bombers "blew themselves up at 6:20 a.m., just when people who had spent the night there were preparing for a meal."
Local authorities also confirmed that children, including a 6-year-old boy, were killed in the attack. The injured are being treated in a regional hospital in Maroua, the capital of Cameroon's Far North region.
Cameroon has been increasingly experiencing violent attack from Islamic State-affiliated Boko Haram amid the country's participation in the Multi-National Joint Task Force, which was created to contain the group's activities in Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Benin. A series of bombings two weeks ago killed 36 and wounded around 80 civilians.