{"id":29229,"date":"2026-03-19T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29229"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:18:13","slug":"drone-attack-from-sudan-kills-17-in-chad-chadian-government","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drone-attack-from-sudan-kills-17-in-chad-chadian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone attack from Sudan kills 17 in Chad: Chadian government\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A cross-border drone \u200battack from Sudan killed 17 people in Chad including \u200cmourners attending a funeral service, the Chadian government and local sources said on Thursday, and the country&#8217;s President\u00a0vowed to retaliate for any further attacks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The \u200bborder town of Tine was struck on Wednesday afternoon \u200bas mourners gathered at a house for a funeral ceremony \u2060for a dead relative that involved reading the Koran, a \u200blocal resident said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There were two explosions and casualties included mourners and \u200bchildren who had been playing nearby, said the resident, who declined to be identified for security reasons.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Local government sources said it was not immediately clear \u200bwho was behind the attack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The conflict in Sudan between the Sudanese army \u200band the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which began in April 2023, has periodically \u200cspilled \u2060into Chadian territory, causing casualties and property damage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chad closed its eastern border with Sudan last month after clashes linked to the war killed five Chadian soldiers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a statement issued early on Thursday, the \u200bgovernment said Chad \u200bhad strengthened its \u2060security presence at the border and could potentially carry out operations on Sudanese territory.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The office of \u200bChad President Mahamat Idriss Deby said in a statement \u200blate \u2060on Wednesday that Deby had ordered the army to retaliate against any attack from Sudan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two local government sources had earlier put the toll \u2060at \u200b16 killed and 10 wounded. A military source \u200bsaid all the dead and injured were civilians.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13272,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-29229","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Drone \u200battack from Sudan killed 17 people in Chad","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29231,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29229\/revisions\/29231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}