“After an interrogation, a suspect showed us a house for building bombs,” said interior minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid. He blamed extremists for the attack, saying that “the mastermind of the network was arrested yesterday”.
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Witnesses say a few are now being used to terrorise other captives, and are even carrying out killings themselves.
“This is a result of the search this morning”.
The United States State Department has said that the Boko Haram sect has killed about 8,239 people since the insurgents started their attacks in Nigeria.
“Five officers, five Boko Haram elements and one police informant” died in the operation in which officers seized several suicide belts, national police spokesman Paul Manga said.
As per a resident, Souleymane Brahim, the first explosion had been heard early Monday in the Dinguessou neighborhood of N’Djamena, and whereas, the second came onto action minutes later.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but suspicion fell on Boko Haram, the Islamic militant group based in neighbouring Nigeria that has already attacked Chadian villages along the lake dividing the two countries.
Before the raid, Chad’s chief prosecutor announced, “the dismantling of a Boko Haram cell and the arrest of 60 people” as part of an inquiry into the suicide bombings.
Fanay, who is in charge of trafficking of weapons in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad was arrested on Sunday in N’Djamena, Chadian Public Prosecutor, Alghassim Khamis report.
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One of Boko Haram’s strategic leader, Fanay alias Mahamat Moustapha, Baana Fanay, has been arrested in Chad republic.
