A night raid blamed on Boko Haram has left a dozen villagers dead in southeast Niger on the frontier with Nigeria, according to a local official.
The attack on Friday night in the border district of Gueskerou is the latest to hit the Diffa region near Lake Chad, which is crisscrossed by fighter groups and traffickers.
“Twelve villagers were killed on Friday at around 8:00 pm by Boko Haram elements,” a local elected official told AFP on Saturday.
He said 11 of those killed had been shot but did not give further details.
The Gueskerou area, abutting the Komadougou Yobe river that provides a natural frontier between Niger and Nigeria, has been exposed to years of killings and kidnappings at the hands of the Boko Haram.
In March, two attacks in the area left eight civilians and seven police dead.
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Source: Vanguard Newspaper
