“We heard gunfire, especially heavy weapons, between 4:30 pm and 7:00 pm on the southern side of the city.”
Conflicting versions of the outcome emerged on Tuesday, with the Islamists claiming to have overrun the site but local residents telling AFP that the assailants had been repelled.
“It was an audacious infiltration attempt by Boko Haram, who were then forced back to the bridge at Doutchi,” he said, referring to a cross-border bridge about 30 kilometres away. The violence spilt over into neighbouring countries in the Sahel in 2015, especially in the Lake Chad region, where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria converge.
Chad claims it killed a thousand jihadists and lost 52 of its men, and drove the jihadists out of its territory.
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