Several dozen people are reported killed with vehicles and motor cycles carrying the jihadis destroyed.

As Nigeria runs up to elections, its neighbours have pitched in to help fight the Islamist terror group that forced them to delay the poll by six weeks.

The aerial strike by Chadian forces was aimed at making the border town of Djaboullam another in the line of settlements recaptured from Boko Haram that seized an area the size of Belgium in its bid to establish a caliphate in the north east of the country.

Boko Haram fighters have been using Nigerian border town to lob mortars into Niger.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan maintains the combined forces will drive the Islamists out within a month.

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