N'DJAMENA, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants killed 14
Chadian civilians and wounded five others in an overnight attack
on a fishermens' camp in the northeastern part of Lake Chad, a
local official said on Wednesday.
Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve out an
Islamist caliphate in northeast Nigeria and has carried out
regular raids over loosely guarded borders into neighbouring
Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
The latest attack struck a camp of fishermen near the
village of Kaiga on Lake Chad, which has been plagued by the
militants since 2009.
"The assailants arrived in the night and attacked the
fishermen," official Dimoya Souapebe told Reuters. Thirteen
people are missing in addition to the 14 killed, he said.
In March, Boko Haram militants killed at least 23 Chadian
soldiers in an overnight raid, one of the deadliest such attacks
inside Chad by the insurgents. Chadian soldiers are part of a U.S.-trained West African
task force deployed to counter Boko Haram. The violence over the
past decade has killed more than 30,000 people and forced about
2 million to leave their homes.