The assailants headed back to Mali 'taking the bodies of their fighters with them,' the source said. local time (0830 GMT).Īnother local source confirmed the death toll and said the target of the attack was a local anti-jihadi defense force called the Vigilance Committees, which was headed by the mayor of Banibangou district.
The mayor of Banibangou is among those who were killed and his body has been recovered,' an MP in the western Tillaberi area said.Ī security source said the attack occurred Tuesday around 9:30 a.m.
'In all there are about 60 dead, nine missing and 15 escaped. The assault took place on Tuesday at Adab-Dab, a village about 55 kilometers (32 miles) from Banibangou in the western region of Tillaberi, a source said.Ī motorcycle-borne defense force was attacked by 'heavily-armed members of the ISGS (Islamic State in the Greater Sahara),” who were also on motorbikes, the source said. A jihadi attack in Niger's volatile tri-border zone with Burkina Faso and Mali has killed dozens of members of a self-defense militia, local sources told AFP on Thursday.
