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Seven Chadian soldiers and a local guard were killed in a Boko Haram jihadist ambush in Lake Chad, the latest in a surge of attacks in the region, security sources said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Boko Haram militants have been waging a decade-long insurgency in northwest Nigeria, but the conflict has spilt into Lake Chad where Nigeria borders Niger, Chad and Cameroon.<\/p>\n

Security sources said the seven Chadian soldiers and the guard were killed in an ambush on Friday in Mbomouga in Chad\u2019s Ngouboua area, and another 13 people were wounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Boko Haram forces lost six of their people and left behind two weapons,\u201d one security source said.<\/p>\n

Among the soldiers killed was a gendarme colonel, the source said. Another source said three army officers were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n

Since 2018, Boko Haram has carried out at least nine attacks on Chad. But the jihadist group has stepped up attacks outside Nigeria after a period of calm last year.<\/p>\n

Last month, militants killed four people in an attack on a Cameroonian island on Lake Chad and Boko Haram killed another 13 villagers in eastern Chad.<\/p>\n

In March jihadists killed at least 23 Chadian soldiers in an attack on an army post in the group\u2019s deadliest attack on the country\u2019s military.<\/p>\n

Since 2015, troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have been grouped into a mixed, multi-national force in a bid to help fight Islamist militants.<\/p>\n

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