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Boko Haram kidnaps at least 60 in deadly Cameroon attack

– Suicide bombing –

Also on Sunday, a suicide bomber killed four people and wounded dozens in an attack on a bus station in Potiskum, northeastern Nigeria, police and hospital sources told AFP.

“(The bomber) slowed his car twice… some distance from the bus station,‎ and he suddenly increased speed and rammed into buses lined up waiting for passengers,” local trader Umar Sani said.

A police officer said four bodies and 48 injured people had been taken from the scene.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the town has often come under attack from Boko Haram militants.

Also in Nigeria, Chadian troops are seeking to recapture the strategic city of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad, which straddles the borders of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon and which fell to the Islamists early this month.

Many say the assault on Baga could be Boko Haram’s deadliest yet. Satellite pictures released by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch showed widespread destruction with around 3,700 buildings in Baga and nearby Doron Baga damaged or destroyed.

Amnesty says as many as 2,000 civilians may have been massacred, but Nigeria’s army objected to the “sensational” claims and said that the death toll in Baga was about 150.

Chad on Saturday sent troops, some 400 military vehicles and several attack helicopters to Cameroon and Nigeria to aid in the fight against the Islamist militants.

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“We will advance towards the enemy tomorrow (Monday),” Chadian colonel Djerou Ibrahim, in charge of the operation, told AFP in the northern Cameroonian town of Maltam.

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