Boko Haram insurgents killed 17 Chadian soldiers in a weekend attack on a military post that also left 96 of the assailants dead in the country’s west, Chad’s army said. The attack in the Lake Chad region happened on Saturday,

Chad's army says an attack by Boko Haram rebels has left 17 soldiers and 96 insurgents dead.

We strongly condemn these acts of extreme violence, which have once again plunged families and the entire Chadian people into mourning”, declared Archbishop Djitangar Goetbé Edmond of N’Djamena, the national capital.

State TV reports fighters fled after clashes with Chadian forces over weekend that killed more than 100 Boko Haram fighters as well as close to 20 Chadian soldiers