Chad has promptly executed 10 members of Nigerian Boko Haram by firing squad.
The men were sentenced to death on Friday after being found guilty of terrorism charges, security sources said on Saturday.
“They were shot this morning at the Massaguet firing range,” said one of the sources, referring to a city about 60 km (40 miles) northeast of the capital N’Djamena.
Among the executed was Mahamat Moustapha, a 30-year-old Cameroonian who was accused of masterminding a series of attacks on N’Djamena.
More than 40 people were killed in those attacks in June and July, prompting Chadian President Idriss Deby to introduce a series of tough new anti-terror laws.
Chad is a leading country in a regional 8,700-strong military task force fighting Boko Haram.
Deby said the jihadist insurgent movement could be destroyed by year end.
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