Chad President Idriss Deby has died, The Tower Post reports.

Details of Deby’s death remain scanty although according to the Nation’s army, the President died of “injuries sustained on the frontline.

“He was visiting troops on the front lines of a fight against northern rebels,” an army spokesman said on Tuesday.

Deby’s death comes just one day after he was declared the winner of a sixth term in office.

On Monday, his campaign said he was headed to the northern part of the country to join troops in fighting “terrorists.”

Rebels based in Libya had attacked a border post on Monday, and advanced hundreds of kilometers South across the desert.

Deby, 68, began his 30-year rule of the country in 1990, and is one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.

He ruled chad with iron hand and during his rule, his party perpetuated hate and brutality against the ordinary people.