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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