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Police officers outline suspected Boko Haram militants in Maiduguri, northest Nigeria, on July 18, 2018.<br />Eight men have been arrested in connection with Boko Haram’s abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria, police said on July 18, 2018. The 14 others were alleged to have been involved in logistics and planning suicide bomb attacks. / AFP PHOTO / AUDU MARTE

Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said Sunday.

“Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua,” not far from Chad’s border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Thursday, the military source said.

The assailants “cut the throats of 18 people, wounded two…



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