A female suicide bomber killed around 10 people at a market in the capital of Chad on Saturday, police said, in the latest attack to hit the country on the frontline in the fight against Boko Haram Islamists.

The woman blew herself up at the entrance to a market in N'Djamena around 8:45 a.m. (0745 GMT), a police official told AFP, adding about 10 people were killed and several injured