Chad: twenty soldiers killed after a Boko Haram attack
A Chadian army vehicle in Koundoul, 25 km from Ndjamena.
(Photo illustration).
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In Chad, the army was attacked on the night of August 4-5 by elements of Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region.
An attack which caused enormous losses.
We are currently talking about twenty soldiers killed and several others missing.
The Chadian army, which has just suffered the biggest attack since Idriss Déby's death last April, is currently leading a counter-offensive.
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With our correspondent in Ndjamena
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Madjiasra Nako
These are soldiers returning from a patrol who were surprised by attackers, obviously well informed in the middle of the night in Tchoukoutalia in the province of Lake Chad.
At the beginning, there was panic and even stampede, report military sources who speak of twenty soldiers killed.
Search operations were launched and at the same time a counter-offensive announced the general staff of the armies.
The branch of the Islamic State in the Sahara and the Sahel led by Abu Moussa el-Barnaoui has not carried out a major offensive since
the attack on Bohoma
in March 2020 which caused the death of more than a hundred Chadian soldiers .
The Chadian army's counter-offensive was then dazzling, causing enormous losses to the terrorist movement, which seems to have since recovered.
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