Four
militants detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of
locals on a Lake Chad island, killing them but no one else, official and
security sources said on Wednesday.
The bombers were part of a group of seven male and female militants
going from Chad's Yogo island to a weekly market in the lakeside town of
Bol in a motorised canoe late on Tuesday, the sources said.
"They were intercepted by villagers who wanted to search them and they resisted," said a local official who asked not to be named.
"The three others managed to swim away," he said, saying they first shed the explosives they were carrying.
Dozens of people were killed in multiple bombings in the nearby town of Baga Sola in October and the Lake Chad island of Koulfoua in December. Chad has since declared a state of emergency in the region.
"They were intercepted by villagers who wanted to search them and they resisted," said a local official who asked not to be named.
"The three others managed to swim away," he said, saying they first shed the explosives they were carrying.
Dozens of people were killed in multiple bombings in the nearby town of Baga Sola in October and the Lake Chad island of Koulfoua in December. Chad has since declared a state of emergency in the region.
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