Three Chadian troops and a female civilian were killed early Thursday when jihadists attacked a military position on an island in Lake Chad, the military said.
He attributed the attack to the Nigerian-based Boko Haram.
The attack is part of a mounting campaign by jihadists in the vast, marshy Lake Chad area, where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria converge. A group called ISWAP that is affiliated to the so-called Islamic State and split from Boko Haram in 2016 is notoriously active in the Lake Chad area.
In early January, all 1,200 Chadians in this force who had been deployed in Nigeria were pulled back to the Chadian side of the lake.
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