A drone from war-torn Sudan k!lled 17 people when it bombed the border town of Tine in eastern Chad, the Chadian government said Thursday, raising an earlier toll
The incident late Wednesday was the latest spillover into Chad from the conflict in Sudan, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been fighting the Sudanese army since April 2023.
The paramilitaries have conducted several operations near the Chad border, leading to deaths on the Chadian side.
Chad shut the border on February 23 in a move it said was aimed at preventing “any risk of the conflict spreading”.
“Despite various firm warnings addressed to the different belligerents in the Sudan conflict and the closure of the border… the town of Tine… has again been the target of a drone attack,” a spokesman for the Chadian government said Thursday in a statement.
“This latest assault of extreme gravity has caused the death of 17 of our compatriots and left several others injured,” it added.
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