Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) – al-Qaeda branch in the Sahel – announced its adoption of a bloody attack against the Nigerien army in between Boni and Torodi in Tillaberi region , which resulted in the killing of 17 Nigerien soldiers, and the group also confirmed its seizure of four military vehicles, 2 Dushkas, 1 mortar, 22 Kalashnikovs and an aircraft March and a number of miscellaneous military equipment
The Niger Ministry of Defense had announced the killing of 17 soldiers and the wounding of 20 others, describing the condition of 6 of them as serious, following an attack that occurred yesterday evening near the border with Burkina Faso, where a squad of the Nigerien armed forces was moving between the towns of “Boni” and “Torudi”. Before falling into an ambush by armed men near the town of Kotogo.
The ministry said in a statement that “all the injured were evacuated to Niamey” for treatment, and it also spoke of “destroying two columns” among the attackers, each of which included “more than 50 motorcycles” as they withdrew from the area.
This is the bloodiest attack since the military coup against the elected civilian president, Mohamed Bazoum, on July 26.
