Deadly Boko Haram members
have been shot dead in a brutal battle by Niger and Chad troops in the Diffa
region of southeast Niger.
About thirty eight Boko
Haram fighters were killed last week during military search operations carried
out by Niger and Chad troops in the Diffa region of southeast Niger, an
official said on Friday.
According to the Niger
defence ministry spokesperson Moustapha Ledru, two soldiers were lightly
wounded in the action and “on the enemy side; 38 terrorists killed,”
Ledru further revealed that
the army recovered large quantities of weapons and munitions. The operations
was conducted by a joint army of Niger and Chad troops between Monday and
Wednesday around the villages of Gueskerou and Toumour in southeastern Niger.
According to villagers and
NGO workers in Gueskerou, 30km from Diffa, Boko Haram elements attacked the
town on Wednesday night, without killing anyone.
“The attack nonetheless
caused a psychosis in the population” and “the assailants torched houses and
stole food and medicines after pillaging shops and a pharmacy,” an NGO official
told AFP.
The militant group’s
insurgency has left at least 20000 people dead in Nigeria and border areas of
neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon and made more than 2.6 million homeless.
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