Chad has banned full-face veil, known as the burqa or niqab, after twin bomb blasts blamed on the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group killed 34 people in the African country.

“Wearing the burqa must stop immediately from today, not only in public places and schools but throughout the whole of the country,” Chad’s Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet said in an address to religious leaders on Thursday.

Deubet said that any type of clothing that leaves only the eyes visible is a form of “camouflage,” calling on religious leaders to spread the message in their mosques, churches and holy places.

He said that the country’s security forces had also been ordered to seize all burqas from markets and burn them.

Deubet added that anyone found wearing a burqa would be “arrested, tried and sentenced in summary proceedings.”

On Monday, four assailants blew themselves up in the twin attacks, which struck a police headquarters and academy in the capital of Chad, N'Djamena. More than 100 other people were also wounded in the assaults.

On Tuesday, Chad's government declared three days of national mourning.

Boko Haram has yet to claim responsibility for the bombings, but the attacks appeared to be retaliation by Boko Haram for Chad's leading role in an offensive against the Takfiri militants.

Since March 8, Chad together with Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria has been carrying out a coordinated offensive against Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s Borno State.

The joint campaign has succeeded in reclaiming swathes of territory seized by Boko Haram Takfiris.

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau had occasionally threatened to attack Chad and other countries that joined forces against the militants, whose militancy has spilled over the borders of Nigeria.

On Thursday, Chad's military said it had carried out airstrikes on Boko Haram positions in neighboring Nigeria on Wednesday to retaliate the twin bombings in the capital.

Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” says its main goal is to overthrow the Nigerian government.

It has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly shooting attacks and bombings in various parts of the country during six years of militancy, which has claimed 15,000 lives and forced 1.5 million from their homes.

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