Three militants of the Boko Haram group died
on Tuesday when a bomb they were
transporting exploded in Niger’s Far East region
of Diffa, local sources said.
The bomb exploded when they were about to
enter Bosso town, one of the sources told
newsmen, adding that the militants were
planning to carry out an attack.
On Sunday, 10 people, among them one soldier,
five civilians and four suicide bombers, were
killed in two separate suicide attacks by Boko
Haram in Diffa.
The two bombs targeted a military camp and a
Mosque in Diffa, a few days after two Nigerien
soldiers were killed in an ambush by the
militants in the same region.
In the last seven months, Niger, like other
countries within the Lake Chad basin, came
under Boko Haram attacks from its bases in
Nigeria.
A multinational force including troops from
Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad and Niger were
fighting Boko Haram as Nigerian President
Muhammadu Buhari vowed to beat the group.
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