Sadly, we regret to announce the following toll: 71 military personnel killed, 12 injured. Others missing.
NIAMEY, Niger (AFP) — Hundreds of jihadists attacked a Niger military camp near the border with Mali with shelling and mortars, killing 71 soldiers, the defense ministry said Wednesday.
Tuesday’s attack in Inates in the western Tillaberi region was the deadliest on Niger’s military since the country’s Islamist militant violence began in 2015.
“Sadly, we regret to announce the following toll: 71 military personnel killed, 12 injured. Others missing,” the ministry said in a statement aired on national television.
The attack was carried out by “heavily armed terrorists estimated to number many hundreds,” the statement said, adding that “a substantial number of terrorists were neutralized.”
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The fighting lasted three hours, combining artillery fire with “the use of kamikaze vehicles by the enemy.”
An earlier toll from a security source put the number killed in the assault at more than 60.
Niger forces are fighting against Boko Haram militants on the southeast border with Nigeria and jihadists allied with the Islamic State in the west near Mali and Libya.
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