DAKAR – An attack by a extremist group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.
The attack took place on Friday afternoon in the village of Fambita in the rural commune of Kokorou, near the tri-state border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the ministry said in a statement. It blamed the attack on the Islamic State in the Great Sahara, or EIGS.
The Associated Press was not able to reach out to the EIGS for comment.
“Around 2 p.m., while Muslim worshippers were performing Friday prayers, these heavily armed terrorists surrounded the mosque to carry out their massacre of rare cruelty,” the statement read.
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