The authorities also deplored the six injured and missing people in the armed attack by the National Guard of the Tahoea region, which have been the target of
Sixteen Nigerien soldiers were killed and another was missing after an ambush on a military patrol in the Tahoua region near the border with Mali.
During the attack by “bandits” on Saturday, the toll was “16 dead, six injured and one missing”, Tahoua official Ibrahim Miko said on public television.
He attended the funeral of Lieutenant Maman Namewa, commander of the patrol that was attacked.
The vast desert area of Tahoua in west Niger – near the borders of Mali and Burkina Faso – has been plagued by violence since 2012.
In March, an attack by rebel fighters on three villages near Niger’s border with Mali left a total of 141 people dead. They were the worst attacks committed by armed groups in Niger in recent years.
Niger-Conflict-Attack May 03, 2021 to 14:49 211 APA - Niamey (Niger) Sixteen Nigerien soldiers were killed and another reported missing, following an ambush on Saturday May 1 by armed men in the west of the country.
The attack on a National Guard patrol in the Tillia area, in the Tahoua region near Mali, further proves the insecurity that reigns in this area near the “three-border” region, a territory straddling the Niger-Burkina Faso-Mali border.
“Our men were ambushed by armed bandits in the Tillia County. This cowardly attack resulted in the death of 16 soldiers, while another six were wounded and one missing,” Ibrahim Miko, the secretary general of the governorate of Tahoua announced on public TV.
Sixteen Niger soldiers have been killed and another is missing after an ambush against a patrol in the Tahoua region near the Mali border, local officials said Sunday. During the attack by “bandits” on Saturday the toll was “16 dead, six injured and one missing,” Tahoua department secretary general Ibrahim Miko said on public television. He attended the funeral of Lieutenant Maman Namewa, commander of the patrol which was attacked.
The vast desert area of Tahoua in the west of the country sits close to the borders of both Mali and Burkina Faso and has been plagued by jihadist violence since 2012. In March an attack by suspected jihadists on three villages near Niger’s border with Mali left a total of 141 people dead, according to the official toll. They were the worst attacks committed by suspected jihadists in Niger in recent years.
16 soldiers killed in attack in west Niger: official
Xinhua
03 May 2021, 11:49 GMT+10
NIAMEY, May 2 (Xinhua) Sixteen soldiers of the National Guard of Niger were killed and six others wounded in an attack in Tilia, west Niger, an official said on Sunday evening. We have just gone through a painful time. Captain Maman Nameywa of the National Guard of Niger, with his mates, fell yesterday in an ambush launched by armed bandits in the department of Tilia, Ibrahim Miko, secretary general of the region, confirmed on national television. From the front, these armed bandits cannot face our men, and they cowardly took advantage of their return from their mission (at the border with Mali) to ambush them, he added.