At least 8 gendarmes died, 33 were injured This Tuesday, around 50 “terrorists” were killed in a terrorist attack on a gendarmerie post in the town of Waraou, about 40 kilometers from Dargol, in southwest Niger and very close to the Burkina Faso border.
Niger’s Ministry of Defense reported that “several dozen vehicles and motorcycles” attacked a gendarmerie position on Tuesday at 05:30 (local time). “The provisional figure is this: On the friendly side, eight dead, thirty-three injured, six admitted to hospitals in Niamey,” the Niger Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Said. He also stated “on the enemy side, about fifty dead and a few wounded“. The ministry explained that “the energetic response of the platoon elements with ground and air reinforcement from both national and partners allowed to defeat the enemy.”
According to other sources, the balance of the attack will be 30 dead, and it is estimated that this attack was carried out by the armed groups that led the attack on the Burkina Faso region of Seytenga last Saturday, which killed about 80 people. By collecting the newspaper ‘L’Evenement Niger’.
The western part of Niger, mainly the Tillaberi region, was the scene of a conflict last year. increasing number of group actions jihadists expanding their range from neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso. Both the Al-Qaeda-linked Support Group for Islam and Muslims (JNIM) and the Islamic State-affiliated ISGS operate in the center of the Sahel.