Five forest guards and a soldier were killed and ten people injured in an ambush on Tuesday in a cross-border natural park managed by Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger, a nature protection organization announced on Wednesday (February 9th).
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Yesterday ... a team of rangers was ambushed in Benin's W National Park.
(…) The provisional toll shows six dead, including five forest guards and a soldier from the Armed Forces of Benin (FAB), ten other people being injured
,” said African Parks, an environmental NGO, in a press release.