N’DJAMENA, July 23 (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 18 farmers and kidnapped nine women in western Chad, authorities said, part of a wave of violence that has spread from neighbouring Nigeria across the region.
The attackers came into the village of Mayerom in Lake Chad region after dark on Thursday last week and slit the farmers’ throats, governor Mahamat Abali Saleh told Reuters.
The fighters took nine women, but one had since escaped, he said.
