Friday,
three female suicide bombers planning to carry out an attack near the
northern Cameroon village of Limani were spotted by local vigilantes
before they could blow themselves up, Cameroon's state broadcaster CRTV
said.
One girl escaped. One girl
who was captured claimed to be part of the group of 276 teenage girls
kidnapped by Boko Haram from the Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014,
NTA reported.
Boko Haram sparked international outrage when it abducted the girls from
the town in northeastern Nigeria, police said. About 50 girls escaped
but authorities fear the rest may have been raped, brutalized or forced
to convert to Islam.
The Nigerian
government designated two parents from Chibok to travel to Cameroon and
visit the girls, NTA said. A timeline has yet to be announced about the
Chibok parents' trip.
One
of the attackers is being held by the Cameroonian military and a second
was sent to a health unit for medical treatment, though her condition
was not revealed, CRTV reported. One of the two was also believed to be
heavily drugged and therefore not in full control of her senses, NTA
said.
Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group based in Nigeria whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.
The group especially opposes the education of women and its name translates to "Western education is a sin" in the local language.
Under
its version of Sharia law, women should be at home raising children and
looking after their husbands, not at school learning to read and write.
Its
members have repeatedly targeted places of learning in deadly attacks
that have highlighted its fundamental philosophy against education.
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