The headquarters of Chad’s main opposition party to the ruling junta was demolished on Friday after its leader was killed in an army assault on the building.

Reporters present at the headquarters reported that a large excavator demolished the three-storey party building on Friday afternoon.

An army security cordon was seen keeping people away from the vicinity, as armoured vehicles could be seen around the building.

The government had accused Dillo of leading an attack against the offices of Chad’s internal security agency the night before his death.

Yaya Dillo Djerou was the leading opponent and cousin of Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, who was proclaimed transitional president by the junta in 2021.

Dillo died on Wednesday after troops surrounded the Socialist Party Without Borders offices in the capital N’Djamena in what his party says was an “assassination”.