17 Mar 2021 05:17AMNIAMEY: Fifty-eight people have been killed in"barbarous" attacks on a bus and nearby villages in Niger close to the country's border with Mali, the government said on Tuesday .
No group claimed responsibility, but Niger is struggling with two militant campaigns - in the west near Mali and Burkina Faso, and a decade-old insurgency in the southeast on the border with Nigeria. Earlier, a local resident had told AFP that the raids began with an attack on a bus travelling to Chinedogar, in which"around 20 people were killed."Another resident said those killed had been shopping at Banibangou, a major market town just a few kilometres from the Malian border.
Hundreds of lives have been lost, nearly half a million people have fled their homes, and devastating damage has been inflicted.The massacre, one of the worst in Niger's history, occurred between two rounds of the country's presidential election.
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