Boko Haram fingered in Chad’s attack that killed 27

At least 27 people, including four suspected Boko Haram fighters, were killed during Monday‘s attacks in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, which the government blamed on the sect.

Over 100 people were also injured in the attacks, Reuters says.

The attacks, which included at least one suicide bombing, are the first of their kind in Chad, an oil-producing nation and a major Western ally which has spearheaded offensives against al Qaeda-linked groups in Mali and on Boko Haram in neighbouring Nigeria.

“Boko Haram is making a mistake by targeting Chad.

“These lawless terrorists will be chased out and neutralised wherever they are,” Reuters quoted Communications Minister Hassan Sylla Bakari as saying on state television.

Bakari did not give further details, but Interior Minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid told Reuters earlier that there had been at least one suicide attack at police headquarters.

One witness at the central police station told Reuters on telephone that he had seen three bodies on the ground.

Photos of several blood-stained bodies and damaged motorbikes reportedly used in the attack were also circulated on Twitter.

Chad has lost dozens of soldiers fighting in northern Mali and in northern Nigeria. The first known attack by Boko Haram on Chadian soil took place in February on the shores of Lake Chad and has been followed by a handful of other isolated incidents.

 

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