Islamist militants have killed at least 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in Niger near the border with Mali
NIAMEY — Islamist militants killed at least 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in Niger near the border with Mali, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in the deadliest raid against the country's military in living memory.
Several hundred militants attacked a base in the western Niger town of Inates over a period of three hours on Tuesday evening, army spokesman Colonel Boubacar Hassan said on state television.
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