An attack that killed no fewer than six Chadian soldiers at a border post with the Central African Republic (CAR) will be jointly investigated by the two countries after a high-level meeting yesterday appeared to ease tensions.
Chad has blamed the CAR army for the attack, and says five of the soldiers were abducted then executed in the incident on Sunday, which it labelled a ‘war crime’ that would ‘not go unpunished’.
CAR had put the blame on rebels it said its soldiers had been pursuing.
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Africa Daily News, New York gathered that at the meeting between the two states’ foreign ministers, ‘the CAR side, after expressing surprise at the attack, firmly condemned it and expressed its profound sympathy to the government and people of Chad’, a joint statement released afterwards said.
The two parties ‘underlined the urgency of clarifying the circumstances in which this attack took place’ and agreed to set up an independent international commission of inquiry.
The two sides also agreed to work together to strengthen security along the border.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
