A Chadian soldier walking past an armoured vehicle that the Chadian military said belonged to insurgent group Boko Haram that they destroyed in battle in Gambaru, Nigeria. The Chadian military said that Boko Haram had taken the vehicle from the Nigerian military. Boko Haram fighters later raided villages in northeast Nigeria on the border with Cameroon, apparently in reprisal for the Chadian offensive against its hideouts. Scores of heavily armed militants rampaged through more than a dozen villages in the Kala-Balge district in Borno state, shooting, hacking residents to death and razing homes. Hundreds of residents fled across the border into Cameroon, prompting Chad - part of a regional coalition against the militant group - to respond by bombarding rebel positions.
