(MENAFN) Local media revealed that more than 22 people have died in the most recent intercommunity gunfights since Sunday in the eastern Chadian province of Sila.
Local media added that 28 people were also wounded in the battles which occurred in the three places of Sila, namely Amkaroka, Amsabarna, and Amsiriye, between Ouaddai farmers and Arab herders.
The Chadian news website Alwihda Info declared that last Thursday, in the neighboring province of Ouaddai, 12 people have been killed in an ambush against the village of Katafa by "heavily armed individuals".
It remains unknown whether the attack of last Thursday was of the same motive of ethnic riot.
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