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No fewer than 15 people lost their lives following a drone attack from Sudan on Wednesday evening in the border town of Tine in Chad.
“We regret that between 15 and 16 people were killed by a drone from Sudan at a funeral gathering in Tine, Chad,” a senior local official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
This is the second attack in the border town of Tine since February. No fewer than 15 soldiers and eight civilians had already lost their lives as a result of the conflict when a rocket launched from Sudan hit the border town in late February and caused damage.
A military source also told AFP that 16 people were killed by a drone attributed to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been pitted against the Sudanese Army since April 2023.
The RSF, however, denied the allegation in a post on Telegram and put the blame on Sudan’s army, its rival in the ongoing civil war, which has lasted three years.
The Sudanese conflict has spilt over into Chad. This is despite the fact that the Chadian Government decided to shut its borders with Sudan following repeated attacks by armed groups involved in the war in February.
RSF paramilitaries have been in control of Dafur, a town in Western Sudan, which shares borders with Chad, since the armed group captured the city of El-Fasher in October.
The armed group claimed control of the Tina, a border town in North Darfur, Sudan, on February 21. The border town is a narrow bed of a watercourse that is dry most of the time, separating Tina and Tine in Chad.
The Sudan civil war has killed thousands of people and displaced over 12 million others from their homes. Almost one million of the people who have been displaced as a result of the violence are from Chad. It has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in Sudan
