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Sunday, 03 January 2021 (YJC)_ security sources said at Least 100 Killed in attack on Local Villages in Western Niger.
At least 100 civilians were killed and others wounded on Saturday by attackers in the Nigerien villages of Tchombangou and Zaroumdareye in the western Tillabery region in Niger, a stone's throw from the border with Mali, security sources said on Sunday.
The attack occurred on the day of the announcement of the preliminary results of the first round of the presidential election in Niger, which saw former Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum leading.
Niger, which has in recent time been ingulfed in a war with the terrorist group Boko Haram*, saw its most recent attack in the middle of December in the town of Toumour, where at least 28 were killed and hundreds more sustained injuries, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
Earlier reports by Radio France Internationale (RFI) had it that "jihadists" on Saturday had attacked the said villages, leaving at least 56 civilians killed and around 20 injured.
Niger, which has in recent time been engulfed in a war with the terrorist group Boko Haram*, saw its most recent attack on 12 December in the town of Toumour, where at least 28 people were killed and hundreds more injured, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
The UN vehemently denounced the act, with the UNRA saying that the Diffa region in southeast Niger "has been hit hard by increasing extremist violence in the Lake Chad basin that has forced hundreds of thousands into the region".
"In the first nine months of this year, over 450 acts of killing, kidnapping, sexual and gender-based violence, and other serious incidents were reported", the agency detailed the statistics.
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