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The aftermath of a bombing in northern Cameroon (file photo)

Two female bombers have killed at least six civilians in a northern Cameroon region bordering militancy-wracked Nigeria.

Yesterday’s assaults hit the village of Nguetchewe, where people had joined the follow-up to a funeral ceremony, AFP reported.

The blasts also killed the attackers — who had joined the mourners pretending to be family members — and also injured between 30 and 50 people.

The fatalities included a six-year-old, a teenager, and a member of a local committee addressing the upsurge in terrorist attacks in the country.

Cameroon has lost some 1,200 people to attacks by the Nigerian Takfiri group of Boko Haram, which spread its campaign of terrorism to the country in 2013. Over 100 people have reportedly been killed in the far northern region in about 20 bomb blasts blamed on Boko Haram since July 2015.

Nguetchewe witnessed a bombing attack against a mosque on January 18, which killed at least four people and injured two others.

Boko Haram started its campaign of militancy in 2009 and has so far taken the lives of at least 17,000 people. Its crimes include bombings, terrorist operations, and militant attacks, which it has also been carrying out against neighboring Chad and other African nations.

The terrorists have pledged allegiance to the Takfiri group of Daesh, which is primarily operating inside Syria and Iraq.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials say.

According to medical sources, the 16-year-old youth, identified as Omar Madi, was shot in the chest yesterday in al-Arroub refugee camp located north of al-Khalil (Hebron), Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.

The clashes erupted after Israeli soldiers “spotted a number of boys throwing stones at Israeli vehicles at route 60 near al-Arroub refugee camp,” the agency quoted an Israeli army spokesman as saying. — PressTv.