Boko Haram hits village in first attack on Chad

Boko Haram fighters attacked a village in Chad, the first known lethal attack in that country by the Nigerian militant group, which killed several people including a local chief, according to residents and security forces.

Dozens of militants arrived by motorised canoe at the fishing village on the shores of Lake Chad, setting houses ablaze and attacking a police station.

“They came on board three pirogues and succeeded in killing about ten people before being pushed back by the army,” said a resident of the village of Ngouboua, about 20km east of the Nigerian border, to which thousands of Nigerian refugees had fled in early January after an attack on the town of Baga.