About 2,000 heavily armed troops took off from regional military powerhouse Chad on Wednesday to neighbouring Niger Republic where they will do combat with Boko Haram terrorists that inflicted heavy casualties on Nigerian and Nigerien troops in the town of Bosso last week, said a military source.
Chad is a major contributor to the Multi-National Joint Task Force fighting the Nigeria-based terrorist group who have been attacking neighbouring countries from their base in northern Nigeria.
The heavily armed troops have been mandated to search for the Islamists everywhere, said the source who craved anonymity.
The first attack on Friday against a military post in Bosso in the Southeast of Niger, left 32 soldiers dead including two from neighbouring Nigeria.
A total of 55 Boko Haram insurgents were killed while many were injured, according to Niger authorities.
"An estimated 50,000 people or so fled," said UN refugee agency, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards on Tuesday.
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