11 CHADIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN BOKO HARAM ATTACK: AUTHORITIES
Since 2015, troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger
and Nigeria have been grouped into a mixed, multi-national force in a bid to
help fight Islamist militants
At least 11 Chadian soldiers were killed in
an attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists at Lake Chad, the latest in a surge of
attacks in the region, authorities said on Sunday.
"The Chadian army lost 11 men including
three officers... and six soldiers were wounded," the regional authority
told AFP.
It added that Chadian forces killed "26
Boko Haram members" in fighting at Tchoukoutalia after the soldiers
recovered cattle that the militants had seized.
Boko Haram militants have been waging a
decade-long insurgency in northwest Nigeria, but the conflict has spilled into
the Lake Chad region where Nigeria borders Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
Security sources earlier said seven Chadian
soldiers and a guard were killed in the ambush that happened on Friday in
Mbomouga in Chad's Ngouboua area.
Since 2018, Boko Haram has carried out at
least nine attacks on Chad. But the jihadist group has stepped up attacks
outside Nigeria after a period of calm last year.
Last month, militants killed four people in
an attack on a Cameroonian island on Lake Chad and Boko Haram killed another 13
villagers in eastern Chad.
In March jihadists killed at least 23 Chadian
soldiers in an attack on an army post in the group's deadliest attack on the
country's military.
Since 2015, troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger
and Nigeria have been grouped into a mixed, multi-national force in a bid to
help fight Islamist militants.
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