Attacks carried out yesterday by gunmen in villages in the Tahoua region of Niger resulted in 137 deaths. The government announced this on Monday. The number of victims makes these attacks the worst jihadist massacre ever committed in Niger. Armed men arrived on motorbikes and attacked three villages near the border with Mali, shooting "anything that moved," a local official said. "By systematically treating civilian populations as targets, these armed bandits have gone one step closer to horror and brutality," government spokesman Zakaria Abdourahamane said in a statement on public television. The government has declared three days of national mourning. The poorest nation in the world, according to the United Nations development rankings, is also forced to struggle with the attacks of jihadists from Mali and Nigeria.
Niger: jihadist massacre, killed 137 people
2021-03-22T22:08:29.094Z
In three villages. It is the worst ever in the country (ANSA)