At least 19 Boko Haram fighters and two Chadian soldiers were killed in combat on Friday after the insurgents attacked a Chadian village on the banks of Lake Chad, a military source said.
“The militants attacked early this morning and we returned fire and they were forced to flee back into Nigeria,” the source told Reuters on telephone from Komguia, where the fighting took place.
Chadian President Idriss Deby earlier on Friday vowed to crush the insurgents who have killed thousands of people and threat the stability of the region.
“Chad will never bend in the face Boko Haram and I promise you that Boko Haram will disappear,” he told a group of Muslim clerics.
Boko Haram has fought a six-year-old insurgency to carve out an Islamist state in northeast Nigeria and are carrying out cross-border attacks despite a military campaign involving Nigeria’s neighbours – Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
Niger’s army killed at least 30 suspected fighters as it searched for militants in villages just over the border with Nigeria.
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