Chad’s army announced on Monday that it had killed more than 300 rebels, implicated in an eight-day raid in northern Chad, during an operation on Saturday in which five soldiers lost their lives.
“On the enemy side, more than 300 rebels were neutralized” on Saturday, Army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna told AFP, lamenting “five martyrs on the friendly side.”
A rebel group launched an offensive from its rear bases in Libya on April 11, but it “came to an end” on Saturday, according to the government.