A TRIPLE suicide bombing on an island in Lake Chad on Saturday killed at least 27 people and left more than 80 wounded, a Chadian security source said, in another apparent strike by Boko Haram Islamists despite a regional offensive to stop the insurgency.

    Sources said the explosions had killed 30 people including the three attackers, and injured more than 80 others.

    The European Union in a statement said Saturday’s attacks were “a threat to the stability of the country and the region.”

    In recent months, Boko Haram fighters have stepped up attacks and suicide bombings on Chadian villages in the lake region that lie close to the frontier with Nigeria.

    The deadliest attack on Chad’s side of the lake took place Oct. 10, another triple suicide, which killed 41 people at Baga Sola.

    Since the start of the year, the Chadian army has been on the front line of a regional military operation against Boko Haram, whose attacks have spread from northeast Nigeria, its traditional stronghold, to the country’s three Lake Chad neighbors.(SD-Agencies)