Security forces in Chad have
arrested 60 suspected Boko Haram militants and dismantled a cell responsible
for two suicide bomb attacks in its capital on June 15, the chief prosecutor of
the central African nation said on Sunday.
Blasts in two police offices in
N'Djamena that appeared to have been coordinated killed 34 people including
four suspected Boko Haram militants and injured dozens. It was the largest
attack of its kind in Chad.
"An active cell of a terrorist
network has been identified and dismantled," said prosecutor Alghassim
Khamis, adding that those arrested came from Chad, Cameroon, Mali and Nigeria.
He identified one attacker as Issa
Oumar, alias Issa Tchoulou, but did not give his nationality. Bomb fragments
collected at the sites had been turned over for analysis to the U.S. Federal
Bureau of Investigation, he said.
Chad has played a leading role in
helping Nigerian forces win back territory from Boko Haram, which has mounted a
six-year insurgency to carve out an Islamist caliphate in Nigeria's northeast
and attacked neighbours Niger and Cameroon.
The Chadian capital is a command
centre for a regional force in the fight.
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