Remember the teenage girls who were arrested last week in possession of suicide bomb vests? Well ongoing investigations show that the girls are from Burkina Faso, and were recruited to wreck havoc in Cameroon.
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Two girls from Burkina Faso suspected to have been recruited by the militant group Boko Haram as would-be suicide bombers were arrested by the Cameroonian security forces, APA can report from local media sources.The two reportedly declared that they had travelled to Yaounde to meet a man called Ibrahim.
According to the daily paper Tribune Cameroon, the government has put out information confirming that Zenabou Gouem, 17 and Mounira Djeko, 13 both Burkinabe citizens, were apprehended on 25 July by police in Cameroon.
The two teenagers were interrogated on 27 July by officers at a police station in the capital of eastern Cameroon.
Zenabou and Mounira left Burkina Faso and made it to Nigeria without any guide.
They arrived in Bertoua on Saturday 25 July and were to continue their trip aboard a bus with a travel company the Cameroonian newspaper reported, adding that the two teenagers’ suspicious attitude at the transport agency had drawn people’s attention.
Cameroon which is prosecuting a military campaign against Boko Haram has recently been rocked by several suicide attacks perpetrated by girls.
The latest incident occurred on 25 July when a 12-year-old girl blew herself in an area heavily frequented, killing 20 people.
The Burkinabe authorities have so far not commented on the arrest of the two young Burkinabe girls.
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