Gunmen have caused severe commotion in a military camp after storming the area to cause utter mayhem.
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Up to about 22 soldiers have been killed in Niger Republic on Thursday.
They were killed when unknown assailants attacked a camp for Malian refugees, the West African nation’s Prime Minister, Brigi Rafini, said.
According to Reuters, the attack targeted a camp in the village of Tassalit in Niger’s Tahoua region, around 525 km Northeast of Niamey.
“We received information of an attack on the camp in Tassalit. For the moment we are told there are 22 dead, but that is not a total death toll.
“The death toll could increase,” he said.
Rafini gave no further information concerning the suspected identities of the attackers or whether any civilians had been killed or wounded.
The camp’s residents are Malians who fled to neighbouring Niger after Islamist militants, some with links to al Qaeda, seized Mali’s desert north in 2012.