A man disguised as a woman wearing a burqa detonated a bomb outside the main market in Chad’s capital Saturday morning, killing 14 people, a police spokesman said.
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National police spokesman Paul Manga said the 15 people who were killed in the attack include 6 men and 9 women.
Chad has been a major participant in the fight against Boko Haram, which has publicly threatened Chad’s president with retaliation.
The bomber, wearing a full-face Islamic veil, blew himself up at the entrance to a market in N’Djamena around 8:45 am (0745 GMT), a police official told AFP, adding about 10 people were killed and several injured.
At first police identified the killer as a woman but later police director general Taher Erda confirmed that the attacker was a man.
The Chadian government blamed that Boko Haram was behind these attacks. “That s when she set off the explosives belt”.
In late June, two more suicide bombings in N’Djamena killed 11 people including five police officers.
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Chad has been at the forefront of a regional military campaign against Boko Haram, which is seeking to carve out an Islamist state in northeast Nigeria and has mounted raids in neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
