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At least 3,000 villagers were forced to leave their homes in the Lake Chad region after a Boko Haram attack on a village near the Chadian border with Niger left at least 18 dead.
Governor of Lake Chad, Mohammed Aba Salah, told Al Jazeera Sunday that the fighters also kidnapped 10 women.
"The Boko Haram fighters slit two [people] and shot the other 16," he said. "One of the 10 women abducted by Boko Haram managed to escape and return home."
Aba Salah also stated that the evacuation after the attack was "a precautionary measure".
Boko Haram controls the border area of Lake Chad with Niger and Nigeria, he said.
Humanitarian Crisis
The group has devastated the region since it took arms in 2009 in Nigeria, killing at least 20,000 people, displacing more than two million in a humanitarian crisis [19659004] Chad, Cameroon and Niger all joined Nigeria's military effort against Boko Haram.
Chad has recently experienced an increase in group attacks.
In May, six people were killed In a Boko Haram attack against a Chadian army checkpoint on an island in Lake Chad, the Nigerian army announced Saturday that it had killed "10 terrorists "after one of his military positions in the south-west of the country. the country was nailed by Boko Haram
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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