Boko Haram kills Quranic students in Chad

Suspected Boko Haram militants aboard a motorboat attacked an island in Chad overnight, killing several children who were Quranic students.

Security sources told Reuters on Tuesday that a Malian student was involved in the attack.

“There were about 15 of them and they came on motorboats. They killed five muhajirin (koranic students) and one Malian,” said a security source in the area.

A second local security source confirmed the attack which he said was on the island of Tetewa, about 80 kilometres from N’Djamena, capital of the country.

Chad, which has been at the forefront of a regional military campaign against Boko Haram, has suffered multiple attacks from the sect.

On Saturday, a man dressed in a woman’s burqa blew himself up at a main market in N’Djamena, killing 14 people and injuring 74.