NIAMEY – At least 58 people were killed in Niger after attacks near the border with Mali on Monday, the government has said.
Gunmen opened fire on four vehicles that were bringing people back from a market.
However, there are currently two jihadist campaigns in Niger – one in the west near Mali and Burkina Faso, and another in the south-east on the border with Nigeria.
The government said “groups of armed, still unidentified individuals intercepted four vehicles carrying passengers back from the weekly market of Banibangou to the villages of Chinedogar and Darey-Daye”.
“The toll from these barbarous acts [is] 58 dead, one injured, a number of grain silos and two vehicles burned, and two more vehicles seized,” it added. The government also announced a three-day period of national mourning, starting yesterday.(BBC)
