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There were no
other reported deaths in the double suicide bomb attack, though
an unknown number of people were injured, one official said.
"The double attack occurred in the public school in the town of
Kerawa," the official said.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
attack, northern Cameroon has become the scene of increasingly
frequent suicide attacks as Boko Haram Islamist militants step
up cross-border violence that has also affected Chad and Niger.
An attack targeting a market in north Cameroon three days ago
killed 32 people and wounded 66 in one of the deadliest attacks
in the country to date.
One source said the school in Kerawa targeted on Thursday had
been housing Nigerian refugees.
Boko Haram has killed thousands of people and driven more than
two million from their homes during its six-year insurgency in
one of the world's poorest regions.
(Reporting By Josiane Kouagheu and Sylvain Andzongo, writing by
Edward McAllister; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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