2015-02-13 13:25
N'Djamena - Boko Haram Islamist fighters on Friday carried out
their first attack inside Chad, killing five people in an early morning
assault on a Chadian village and a military camp on the shores of Lake
Chad, residents and a security source said.
“They came on board three canoes,” a Ngouboua village resident said.
A
security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the
militants had killed at least four villagers and one Chadian soldier
before the army was able to push them back.
Boko
Haram militants based in northern Nigeria have staged a number of
cross-border attacks in recent weeks in their campaign to carve out an
Islamist emirate around the Lake Chad area which borders Nigeria, Chad,
Cameroon and Niger.
Chad’s army, one of the best in the region,
has joined a regional offensive against them and says it has killed
hundreds of fighters in the past fortnight.
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