Chad troops killed in Boko Haram counter-attack

Agence France-Presse
Chad troops killed in Boko Haram counter-attack
'After finishing the count in Fotokol, we... found 13 Chadian soldiers killed,' Cameroon's defense minister, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o, said

Yaoundé, CAMEROON – Thirteen Chadian soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a counter-attack by Boko Haram militants on the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol, Cameroon’s defense minister said.

Nigerian Boko Haram fighters went on the rampage in the same town on Wednesday, February 4.

“After finishing the count in Fotokol, we…  found 13 Chadian soldiers killed,” the minister, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o, said Thursday. (READ: Chad forces retake border town from Boko Haram

He also said 81 civilians had been killed, up from a toll of around 70 given Wednesday, and confirmed that six Cameroonian soldiers had died. – Rappler.com 

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