Intercommunal attack kills 17 women, children in Chad

By AFP
June 21, 2025
As violence rages in West Darfur, wounded people arrive in waves to Adré hospital in Chad, where they are being treated by MSF and Ministry of Health teams. Chad, 16 June 2023. — AFP
As violence rages in West Darfur, wounded people arrive in waves to Adré hospital in Chad, where they are being treated by MSF and Ministry of Health teams. Chad, 16 June 2023. — AFP

N´DJAMENA: An attack by herders armed with machetes has killed at least 17 people, all women and children, in a village in southwestern Chad, an official for the regional governor told AFP on Friday.

“The Fulani, in collusion with others, attacked the small village. They killed six women and 11 children,” general delegate Abdelmanane Katab said.

The attack in Oregomel on Thursday took place five kilometres from Mandakao, where 42 people were killed in an attack a month earlier, he said. Prosecutor Mahamat Abdou Issa told AFP 20 “assailants” had been arrested.