ALBAWABA - According to local reports, several casualties have been recorded killed in an attack on the Chad Intelligence Services office in N'Djamena.
An attack on the office of Chad's strong ANSE internal security agency in the capital N'Djamena killed multiple individuals, according to a government statement released on Wednesday.
The statement blamed the nighttime attack on activists from the opposition Socialist Party Without Borders, led by Yaya Dillo, and stated that "the situation is now completely under control" and that "the perpetrators of this act have been arrested or are being sought and will be prosecuted".
The attack occurred after a party member was detained and charged with an "assassination attempt against the president of the Supreme Court," according to the report.
Dillo is a staunch critic of Chad's transitional president, his cousin Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno. He condemned the attack on the president of the Supreme Court as "staged".
The ANSE attack comes a day after Chad announced that it will hold a presidential election on May 6, in which both Mahamat Deby Itno and Dillo want to run.
