Deadly Boko Haram members have been shot dead in a brutal
battle by Niger and Chad troops in the Diffa region of southeast Niger.
About thirty eight Boko Haram fighters were killed last week during
military search operations carried out by Niger and Chad troops in the
Diffa region of southeast Niger, an official said on Friday.
According to the Niger defence ministry spokesperson Moustapha Ledru,
two soldiers were lightly wounded in the action and “on the enemy side;
38 terrorists killed,”
Ledru further revealed that the army recovered large quantities of
weapons and munitions. The operations was conducted by a joint army of
Niger and Chad troops between Monday and Wednesday around the villages
of Gueskerou and Toumour in southeastern Niger. According to villagers and NGO workers in Gueskerou, 30km from Diffa,
Boko Haram elements attacked the town on Wednesday night, without
killing anyone. “The attack nonetheless caused a psychosis in the population” and
“the assailants torched houses and stole food and medicines after
pillaging shops and a pharmacy,” an NGO official told AFP. The militant group’s insurgency has left at least 20000 people dead
in Nigeria and border areas of neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon and
made more than 2.6 million homeless.
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