Chad Executes 10 Boko Haram Members

Ten members of Nigeria-based Islamist group called Boko Haram were killed on Saturday by the Chadian authorities.

The convicts were executed by firing squad in the country’s capital, N’Djamena. They were found guilty of a double suicide that left 38 persons dead in N’Djamena.

It was said that the insurgents were sentenced to death on Friday by a court in Chad.

A judicial source, who begged not to be named, told AFP that the terrorists were “executed this morning on a shooting ground north of N’Djamena.”

They were accused of criminal conspiracy, killings, wilful destruction with explosives, fraud, illegal possessions of arms and ammunition, as well as using psychotropic substances.

One of the convicts include a Nigerian national named Mahamat Mustapha, also known as Bana Fanaye, who according to Chadian authorities, masterminded the June 15 suicide attacks that struck a school and a police building in N’Djamena, killing 38 people and injuring 101.

On July 12, a fresh attack in the Chadian capital claimed by Boko Haram left at least 15 dead and 80 hurt after an assailant dressed as a woman blew himself up in the central marketplace.

Boko Haram has launched several attacks in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, claiming more than 10,000 lives.