Chad executed 10 alleged members of Nigeria-based Islamist group, Boko Haram, by firing squad Saturday, a day after they were found guilty of a double suicide killing that left 38 people dead in the capital N’Djamena.
“They were executed this morning on a shooting
ground north of N’Djamena,” a judicial source told AFP. The report was
confirmed by a security source who asked not to be identified.
The 10 were condemned to death Friday in the
country’s first trial of presumed members of the Islamist group. The hearings
opened Wednesday.
Nigeria’s neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger
have all suffered attacks by Boko Haram and earlier this year they announced a
regional force to end the militants’ insurgency that has claimed more than
15,000 lives since 2009.
-Vanguard
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