army accused of killing dozens of Borno fishermen during response to Boko Haram

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In Nigeria, voices are being raised to denounce a blunder by the Chadian armed forces who have mistakenly killed dozens of fishermen in the Lake Chad region, according to information relayed by the media.

These accusations come as the Chadian army continues the Haskanite operation announced by President Mahamat Idriss Deby in retaliation for the attack by a faction of Boko Haram, Sunday October 27, against a military base which cost the life of a forty soldiers, specifies RFI.

Contacted by RFI, Abubakar Gamandi, president of the Borno fishermen’s association, confirmed the death of numerous fishermen, killed during an air raid by the Chadian army.

But he is not able to give a precise number of victims, indicates the same source.

“This attack affected many of our members, some were injured and were brought to Doron Baga and taken to the military hospital where they are being treated. But regarding those who were killed in the bush, we cannot give any details. figures, we don’t know how many people are going to this area,” Gamandi said.

“Those who returned with the wounded told us that many people had been killed and that they had seen corpses on the ground… But as the army plane was carrying out raids in the area, they did not “were not able to stay there to do the counting,” he added.

The spokesperson for the Chadian government, Minister of Foreign Affairs Abderaman Koulamallah, rejects these accusations.

“This is completely fanciful information. This time, we targeted specific military objectives,” assured the minister in a statement to the French media, specifying that terrorists were neutralized “but in no case did we attack civilians.”

“We still have a certain amount of fairly precise, fairly reliable information. Under no circumstances will we attack civilians. It is contrary to our ethics, it is contrary to our vision of the fight against terrorism,” he said. -he emphasized.

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