One Police officer killed, 2 others kidnapped in attack on checkpoint in Niger

One Police officer killed, 2 others kidnapped in attack on checkpoint in Niger
# 23 May 2021 05:28 (UTC +04:00)

One police officer was killed, two others were kidnapped in an attack by an armed group of men on a checkpoint in southeastern Niger, a source in the security forces told Sputnik on Saturday, APA reports citing Reuters.

"An armed attack targeted a checkpoint in southeastern Niger on the road linking the cities of Diffa and Surua. As a result of the attack, one policeman was killed, two others were kidnapped. The assailants fled in the direction of Nigeria," the source said.

Radical Islamist groups associated with Boko Haram (terrorist group banned in Russia) have been active in the Diffa region over the past few months. Boko Haram has operated in northeast Nigeria and several other Western African nations, conducting numerous deadly attacks and abductions, since it initiated an Islamic insurgency in 2009.

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