At least two policemen killed in an alleged terrorist attack in Niger

Oct. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least two Niger Police officers have died in an alleged terrorist attack on a police station in a town near the Burkina Faso border, the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.

After last Saturday there was an attack against a forest checkpoint in Tamou, also near the Niger border with Burkina Faso, a new attack has been registered against a police station, where the attackers have also stolen military material.

Following the attack, the Nigerien authorities have launched search operations for the suspects both by land and air, which has allowed the country’s Armed Forces to find “enemy elements” who had escaped to a clandestine gold mining operation located east of the town of Tamou, as detailed by the Niger Defense Ministry.

The country faces a terrorist threat in the west from the Al Qaeda branch in Mali, the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (JNIM), and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS). Likewise, the Diffa region, bathed by Lake Chad, is the scene of relatively frequent attacks by Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA).