N'DJAMENA: Over 3,000 Nigerians have fled to Chad to escape attacks in northern Nigeria by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, government officials said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).

"Since mid-December we've witnessed a massive influx of Nigerian refugees in the Lake Chad region" bordering Nigeria, Chadian Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet told diplomats and other international officials in N'Djamena.

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