Chad: new attack in the south of the country and behind the backs of soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic

Chadian soldiers on manoeuvres (illustration image). AFP--

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While the Chadian army was engaged in a joint military operation in the Central African Republic, just opposite the province of Logone Oriental - officially to eradicate rebel groups settling in the north of the neighboring country - a new attack that caused between eleven and twenty victims, according to the sources, took place yesterday, Wednesday morning, May 17, very close to the Central African border and practically behind the back of the Chadian army, to the great dismay of the population.

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The attackers launched their attack on the village of Adoum around 5am and was very barbaric, according to several testimonies collected by phone. One of them speaks of a "real massacre" and "great cruelty" committed by men in military uniform, without elaborating, explaining that in a house attacked they horribly killed the husband, his wife and their three children including a baby barely three months old.

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Bandits » neutralized

In total, 26 people would have been killed, not counting several others wounded, say these witnesses, all angry with the government, accused of not having protected them. On the side of the transitional government, we want to be reassuring. The Chadian Minister of Defense assures that his men immediately launched themselves in pursuit of those they describe as "bandits" and neutralized them. General Daoud Yaya Brahim: "There were armed robbers who came to ransack a village killing eleven citizens. We pursued them with our security forces and got hold of eight live thieves, and brought back the oxen and 6 dead among the thieves. They are brigands, they are Fulani, roadblockers, who come from the Central African Republic.

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The population will "blow

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The minister is in southern Chad to oversee a military operation launched since Sunday against Chadian "bandit" bases in northern CAR, together with Central African soldiers. He assures that this operation which was a success ended yesterday. It will allow our population to "breathe", he added, despite this new attack.

>> READ ALSO: North-West CAR: Chadian and Central African forces conduct an operation, according to N'Djamena

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