The insurgents Boko Haram have launched its first and deadly attack on the Nigerian neighbour Chad. The Islamist group attacked the Chadian village and a military camp early Friday morning killing five people.
Sources said, “They came on board three canoes,” a village resident of Ngouboua on the shores of Lake Chad.
Security sources who spoke said, about 30 militants attacked the village and 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 two weeks.
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