Boko Haram militants kill 14 Chad civilians in overnight raid

People cross Lake Chad in canoes in Ngouboua, Chad, January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun/File Photo

Boko Haram militants killed 14 Chadian civilians and wounded five others in an overnight attack on a fishermens’ camp in the northeastern part of Lake Chad, a local official said on Wednesday.

Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve out an Islamist caliphate in northeast Nigeria and has carried out regular raids over loosely guarded borders into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.