At least 17 people were killed in southern Chad on Tuesday when armed assailants attacked nomadic herders and were then driven back by Chadian forces, the government said on Wednesday.
Government spokesperson Aziz Mahamat Saleh said an armed group based in neighbouring Central African Republic had attacked the civilians on Tuesday in Chad's Logone Oriental province before the army intervened.
Four people were killed in the fighting before the army pushed out the assailants, killing 13 of their fighters, Saleh told Reuters.
