Chad seizes Nigeria-bound Boko Haram weapons

Chadian security forces have announced the capture of a large cache of weapons including guns, rockets and ammunition in a house in N’Djamena occupied by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect.

The officials said the weapons, buried under the courtyard of the house in the eastern neighbourhood of Guinebor, were destined for northern Nigeria.

One of the investigators, who didn’t want to be named, said that the intercepted weapons were part of a larger collection that Baana Fanaye, Boko Haram’s logistics chief for northern Cameroon and Chad, was preparing to send to Nigeria.

He said the revelation came during an investigation after Fanaye was arrested in a raid by Chadian police in June.

State prosecutor Alghassim Khamis said the latest arms cache, discovered on Thursday, was found hidden in one of the houses raided on June 27.

He said Chadian authorities arrested 60 suspected militants on June 27 and dismantled their suicide attacks cells.

Khamis said two days later, five officers and six militants were killed during a raid on an arms cache.