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Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 26 people in Chad attacks

Boko Haram has stepped up assaults in recent weeks across the region in what appears to be a fight back against an offensive mounted by soldiers from Nigeria and its neighbors, Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

"The two villages were attacked by surprise on Saturday and Sunday night. There were 13 dead in each attack," said a Chadian official who declined to be named.

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