Chad soldiers kill over 60 Boko Haram jihadists

The Chadian army killed 63 members of the Boko Haram terror group on Sunday night in the Lac region, local media reported on Monday, April 15, quoting a military statement.

Seven Chadian soldiers were killed and a dozen others wounded fighting back a Boko Haram attack around midnight on an army position in Mbohama, in the sub-prefecture of Kaiga Kindjiri, according to the statement.

This has been the second Boko Haram attack in recent weeks. In mid-March, also in the Lac region, at least 23 Chadian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram ambush.

Last week, Tahir Erda, Chad's newly appointed chief of defence staff, travelled to Lac to "urgently" implement a new approach to thwart the terrorist group, Xinhua noted.

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