Chad
executed 10 alleged members of Nigeria-based Islamist group, Boko Haram, by
firing squad Saturday, a day after they were found guilty of a double suicide
killing that left 38 people dead in the capital N’Djamena.
“They were
executed this morning on a shooting ground north of N’Djamena,” a judicial
source told AFP. The report was confirmed by a security source who asked not to
be identified.
The 10 were
condemned to death Friday in the country’s first trial of presumed members of
the Islamist group. The hearings opened Wednesday.
Nigeria’s
neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger have all suffered attacks by Boko Haram and
earlier this year they announced a regional force to end the militants’
insurgency that has claimed more than 15,000 lives since 2009.
The
defendants were accused of criminal conspiracy, killings, wilful destruction
with explosives, fraud, illegal possessions of arms and ammunition, as well as
using psychotropic substances.
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