Boko Haram Insurgents Kill 139 Chadian, Nigerian Troops
- Chadian president says troop casualties the worst ever
- Militants attacked convoy of Nigerian troops on reinforcement
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Boko Haram Islamist militants operating in Africa’s Lake Chad region killed 92 Chadian soldiers and 47 Nigerian troops in separate attacks on the same day, dealing a blow to a multinational effort to defeat their 11-year-old insurgency.
At least 92 soldiers were killed and 47 injured in the attack on troops on Monday in the southern village of Boma on the shores of the lake near Chad’s common frontiers with Nigeria and Niger.