Dozens of people were killed on Monday in Niger in a series of attacks carried out by armed men near Banibangou, in the Tillabéri region (West) near Mali, security sources told AFP on Tuesday (March 16th). and villagers.
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"
One of the attacks took place yesterday (Monday) in the afternoon and targeted a vehicle carrying passengers on the Banibangou-Chinégodar axis and there were about twenty killed
", told AFP a inhabitant of a village reached by telephone.
Other attacks targeting villages were carried out on Monday evening, leaving "
about thirty people killed
", according to a security source.
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