Niger’s Defence Minister Alkassoum Indatou told AFP on Wednesday that an attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger Republic’s jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and wounded nine others.
The minister said in a statement that the assault late on Tuesday targeted defence and security forces in Baroua, in the Diffa region, by several hundred Boko Haram elements who came from Lake Chad.
According to him, Nigerien soldiers “neutralised around 50 terrorists” and “secured a large quantity of arms and ammunition”.
Adolphus Mawolo reports.
