DAKAR: Three suicide blasts at a market on an island in Lake Chad have killed at least 27 people and injured 90 others.
Chad police spokesman Paul Manka said that three females carried out Saturday’s attack on Koulfoua Island.
Gen. Banyaman Cossingar, Chad gendarmerie director general confirmed the attack saying Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is suspected.
The Lake Chad region, which straddles the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria, has been regularly targeted by the extremists. Chad’s government has already imposed a state of emergency in the area.
