Boko Haram gunmen kill 18 in Nigeria
Niamey: Eighteen people were killed and 100 homes torched in an attack in the dead of night by Nigeria’s Boko Haram fighters on a southeastern village, local authorities said yesterday.
“The toll is 18 dead, 11 hurt, almost 100 homes burned down in the village of Wogom late yesterday”, the mayor of the nearby town of Bosso, Bako Mamadou said.
A humanitarian worker said the Islamists came from Nigeria and crossed the Komadougou Yobe river, the border between Niger and Nigeria.
Armed jihadists and suicide bombers from Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group have staged repeated attacks since February in Niger’s southeast Diffa region near Nigeria, leaving hundreds of people dead.
The United Nations has registered around 50 attacks and clashes between Islamist fighters and Niger troops since February.
