Death toll in Chad's twin attacks rises to 37

The death toll in Monday's twin suicide attacks in N'Djamena, Chadian capital, has risen to 37, including the four suicide bombers, Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno said in a televised broadcast on Tuesday night.

Deby Itno "strongly condemned this horrible and barbaric act committed by terrorists, and promised that the crime would not go unpunished."

He urged his fellow citizens to remain calm, to double their vigilance and effectively cooperate with the security services to neutralize any attempt to destabilize their country. "Chad will never bow to blackmail by terrorists," the president declared.

On Monday morning, suicide bombers targeted the National Police School and the central police station which is situated a few meters from the presidential palace.

The provisional death toll that had been published on Monday by the government was 27, including the four terrorists and about 101 others had been injured.

The Chadian government which has deployed troops to participate in operations against Boko Haram in Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger, has blamed this terrorist group for the twin attacks, the first of their kind in N'Djamena. Endi