A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in the Ganse neighbourhood of Kolofata town in the far north of Cameroon on Friday morning, sources informed the African Press Agency.

According to witnesses at the spot, the suspect who was intent on carrying out a carnage during dawn prayers, was foiled by the vigilance of the Muslim worshippers present there at the time.

Barely two other people were wounded in the blast.

The attack coincides with an increase in similar incidents in areas bordering Nigeria, most of which are regularly foiled by vigilante groups consisting of civilians.

In nearby Kolofata, and according to the editor of regional biweekly Oeil du Sahel, a farmer was murdered the day before in an incursion by Boko Haram at Achigachia.

Two women were also kidnapped on the same occasion.

On the same day, six Cameroonian hostages held for several weeks by the sect, surrendered themselves before authorities at Fotokol after escaping from their captors.