Two separate attacks killed three policemen and a soldier in Niger, officials said
Two separate attacks killed three policemen and a soldier in Niger, an official said, just days before the impoverished West African nation votes in the second round of presidential elections.
Gunmen believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda in Maghreb (AQIM), the terror group’s African affiliate, shot dead three policemen in a market in Dolbel near the border with Burkina Faso, the interior minister Hassimi Massaoudou said.
“The attackers were repelled, and we are currently sweeping the area. We don’t know the toll on the attackers’ side, they took their wounded and dead,” the minister said.
Today, Niger goes to the polls for the second round of presidential elections expected to hand another term to incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou.
