Jihadists carried out another attack in the same area on Saturday. DiffaRegion Niger Nigeria
Soldiers from Niger following an attack carried out by Boko Haram in Bosso on June 17 2016. © Issouf Sanogo, AFP
The attack on the Blabrine base took place Monday at around 11 pm, according to Mara Mamadou, a civil society official in Diffa, adding that the assailants made off with property, “and some men were killed.” The Blabrine base is some 20 kilometres northeast of Diffa town in the remote southeastern region near Lake Chad, where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria converge.The region of the poor Sahel country borders Nigeria, the birthplace of Boko Haram.
On May 13, Niamey said 75 Boko Haram combattants had been killed in southeast Niger and across the border in Nigeria.
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