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Up to about 22 soldiers have been killed in Niger Republic on Thursday.
They were killed when unknown assailants attacked a camp for Malian
refugees, the West African nation’s Prime Minister, Brigi Rafini, said.
According to Reuters, the attack targeted a camp in the village of
Tassalit in Niger’s Tahoua region, around 525 km Northeast of Niamey.
“We received information of an attack on the camp in
Tassalit. For the moment we are told there are 22 dead, but that is not a
total death toll.
“The death toll could increase,” he said.
Rafini gave no further information concerning the suspected
identities of the attackers or whether any civilians had been killed or
wounded.
The camp’s residents are Malians who fled to neighbouring Niger
after Islamist militants, some with links to al Qaeda, seized Mali’s
desert north in 2012.
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