Boko Haram Killed 18 In Chad - Military Source

Sia Kambou, AFP. This aerial picture taken on July 16, 2016 shows the Lake Chad in the Bol region, around 200km from Chad capital city N'Djamena.

An attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad region has left eighteen people dead, a Chadian military source said Sunday.

“Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua,” not far from Chad’s border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm (20:00 GMT) on Thursday, the military source said.

The assailants “cut the throats of 18 people, wounded two others and kidnapped 10 women”.

Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency has devastated the region since it took up arms in 2009 in Nigeria, leaving at least 20,000 people dead, displacing more than two million others and triggering a humanitarian crisis.

Chad, Cameroon and Niger have all joined the military effort by Nigeria to crush Boko Haram.

Chad has seen a recent increase in attacks by the group.

Six people, including four government officials and a soldier were killed in May, in a Boko Haram attack on a Chadian army checkpoint on an island in Lake Chad.

Niger’s army said Saturday it killed “ten terrorists” after one of its military positions in the southwest of the country was attacked by Boko Haram.





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