22 killed in an attack on a village in Niger – Mehr news agency Iran and world's news

According to Mehr news agency, quoted from Russia Ilyum, local sources told AFP that 22 civilians were killed in an attack believed to have been carried out by extremists on a village in the region.Tilabri” in West Niger They were killed near the border with Mali.

A local official told AFP that 22 people were killed in the attack, some of them members of a self-defense militia group in the village ofMotogata” They were.

He stated that the attackers entered the village around 15:00 GMT with 20 motorcycles, each carrying two people, and started shooting and massacring people.

It is worth mentioning that a military council since July last year after the coup d'état Niger has taken power in this country.