TWO blasts outside the police headquarters and academy have killed at least 10 people in the capital of Chad, whose forces have been instrumental in fighting armed group Boko Haram in neighbouring Nigeria, police officials have said. The country’s interior minister said at least one suicide bomber attacked the police and intelligence offices in N’Djamena yesterday, with social media reports indicating causalities. Interior Minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid told the Reuters news agency that security forces had locked down the area but the situation was ongoing. A police official who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media said at least 10 people had been killed in that attack, according to the AP news agency. Security sources told Reuters that death toll is at least 20. Social media users in the capital said that a number of deaths had been reported and that Boko Haram was suspected of carrying out the attack. The government ...
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