Triple Suicide Bombing Kills 27 At Chad Market

A triple suicide bombing at a market on an island in Lake Chad on Saturday killed at least 27 people and injured 90 others, said security officials.

The three explosions on Koulfoua were carried out by females, said Chad police spokesman Paul Manga.

Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is suspected, according to Chad’s director general of the gendarmerie, Gen. Banyaman Cossingar.

The Lake Chad region, which straddles the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria, has been regularly targeted by the extremists. Chad’s government in November imposed a state of emergency in the area.

Two suicide bombings also by women killed at least three people in November in Ngouboua village near Lake Chad. Five coordinated suicide bombings in October killed at least 36 people and wounded some 50 others in the western village of Baga Sola near Lake Chad that is home to thousands of Nigerians who have fled the extremists’ violence.