92 Chad soldiers killed in 'deadliest' Boko Haram attack
Attack on soldiers on the Boma peninsula on Sunday lasted at least seven hours and reinforcements were also attacked.

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At least 92 soldiers from Chad have been killed in the deadliest-ever attack by the Boko Haram armed group on the country's military forces, President Idriss Deby said on Tuesday.


"We lost 92 of our soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers," the president said of the attack overnight on Sunday in Boma.

"It’s the first time we have lost so many men," he added, after visiting the site of the incident in Lac province, which borders Niger and Nigeria.

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The attack on soldiers on the Boma peninsula lasted at least seven hours and reinforcements sent to help out were also hit, one soldier told AFP news agency.

He said 24 army vehicles were destroyed, including armoured vehicles and Boko Haram carried off weapons stolen from the military in speedboats.

"The enemy has hit at our defences hard in this zone," a senior officer said.

The attack is part of an expanding armed campaign in the vast, marshy Lake Chad area, where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria converge.


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Boko Haram launched an armed campaign in Nigeria in 2009 before beginning incursions in its eastern neighbours.

Earlier on Tuesday, Nigeria's military reported that scores of Nigerian soldiers were also killed in the northeastern state of Borno near the border with Chad.

The attackers used rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weaponry in the attack on the village of Gorgi on Monday evening.

It was not immediately clear who the attackers were, but fighters from Boko Haram and the ISIL (ISIS) West Africa Province groups are active in the region.

Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks in recent months on the islands of the Lake Chad Basin.

Since 2015, countries in the area have cooperated in the Multinational Joint Force, a regional coalition engaged around Lake Chad with the help of local residents formed into vigilante groups.

Boko Haram's decade-long armed campaign has so far killed 36,000 people and displaced nearly two million in northeastern Nigeria, according to the United Nations.
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Wawu. These boko haram guys are more trained than our naija millitary personel.

Seriously!! what's going on Chadian soldiers are Feisty fighters. hmm if they can do this to Chadian soldiers,. God help us. As if the world don't have enough problems. Now this... Seriously
The CIA are creating a monster in North Africa

Where are those people saying covid-19 has sent these guys into dormancy? This makes it 142 kills within 24 hours. Everything ain't just right.

Oga oo

I was among those that said that all of a sudden I started hearing news of attacks. Ever since the breakout started they seemed to have been on the low.

Humanoid01:
Where are those people saying covid-19 has sent these guys into dormancy? This makes it 142 kills within 24 hours. Everything ain't just right.

That 92 could be 300. No pun.

Terrorism isn't just ending anytime soon.

I haven't heard of any terrorist group been anhilitaed.

Just look at what turkish backed rebels is doing in Syria upon the Russian presence.

These guys attacks and vanish into the thin air mixing with civilians.

But I tell you, these guys suffer hefty blows which sometimes goes unreported.

Saying terrorism will end is just like saying cultism and gangsterism will end..
Those things are works of indoctrination..they I'd be even proud to do in action.

This level of carnage from the
enemy shows that the extremely
deadly ISIS & Alqaeda commanders
fighters from the middle East are in
their midst, giving them technical
advice & military ambush strategy.


But trust Deby, he will deal decisively
with any Boko haram caught, not like
Buhari who gives them TLC

The worst thing is that there's another unconfirmed attack right now. But i will post it. When it's confirmed