18 killed in Boko Haram attack in Chad

N’DJAMENA: Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said yesterday, reports AFP.

“Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua,” not far from Chad’s border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm (2000 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.

 

18 killed in Boko Haram attack in Chad

NDJAMENA: Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said yesterday, reports AFP. Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua, not far from Chads border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Thursday, the military source said. The assailants cut the throats of 18 people, wounded two others and kidnapped 10 women. Boko Harams 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.