An attack by Boko Haram terrorists on an army post in the southeastern Niger region of Diffa left eight dead and three missing, state radio said Monday.
Local sources had said Sunday that a “major” attack had killed soldiers who were hospitalised in Diffa, but they did not give figures.
“On the friends’ side there were eight dead, eight wounded, three missing. On the enemy side almost all the assailants were neutralised,” the radio said. The region which abuts Nigeria and Chad has repeatedly suffered attacks by the Boko Haram jihadist group since 2015, but they have subsided since late last year.
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