11 killed in operation against Boko Haram in Chad
capital: police
By AFP
raEleven people died early Monday after Chadian police launched an
operation against Boko Haram militants in the capital, police said.
“Five officers, five Boko Haram elements and one police informant”
died in the raid in which officers seized several suicide belts, national
police spokesman Paul Manga told AFP. The raid follows a June 15
double suicide attack blamed on Boko Haram that killed at least 33
people in N’Djamena in the deadliest attack of its kind in the Chadian
capital.
UPDATED
Eleven people died early Monday when Chadian police launched a
raid against Boko Haram jihadist militants in a district of the capital
N’Djamena, police said.
“Five officers,
five Boko Haram
elements and one
police informant”
died in the
operation in
which officers
seized several
suicide belts,
national police
spokesman Paul
Manga told AFP.
The assault
follows a June 15 double suicide bombing blamed on the armed
Islamist movement from neighbouring Nigeria, which killed at least 33
people in N’Djamena in the deadliest attack of its kind in the city.
Before Monday’s raid, Chad’s chief prosecutor announced “the
dismantling (of a Boko Haram cell) and the arrest of 60 people” as
part of an inquiry into the suicide bombings.
“A terrorist cell was identified and taken down. Sixty people were
detained,” including Nigerians, Chadians, Cameroonians and Malians,
prosecutor Alghassim Kassim stated.
Kassim said that one of three people behind the June 15 attacks – all
killed in action by security forces – had been positively identified,
while the identity of the two others was being checked.
“The debris left by the kamikaze bombers enabled us to determine
that the terrorists were wearing specially-made explosive vests in
black fabric,” Kassim said.
“Fragements (of the bombs) collected at the scenes of the attacks
are identical,” he added.
The suicide bombings by three people targeted the police
headquarters and the police training school in N’Djamena and also
wounded 101 people, according to the latest toll from the
prosecutor’s office.
A score of people injured in the blasts are still in hospital, one of
them in serious condition.
While nobody has taken responsibility for the bombings, N’Djamena
has blamed them on Boko Haram, a radical force that launched a
bloody uprising in northeast Nigeria in 2009, killing thousands of
civilians and putting more than a million to flight.
Boko Haram has several times threatened Chad, whose troops
entered Nigeria at the beginning of February this year as part of
regional military intervention to battle the Islamic sect.
Jihadist fighters are also active across the borders of Cameroon and
Niger. www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/11-killed-in-operation-against-boko-haram-in-chad-capital-police/

hmmm toooo bad

Sad.
RIP to the dead

Why can't this stupid group drop their arms and embrace peace, they should know that their brother has gotten the Seat so they should all take a chill pill