Boko Haram kills 6 Nigerien soldiers, wounds 3

Chadian General Brahim Seid (R) is welcommed by Nigerien General Seyni Garba (C) at the airport of Diffa, southeastern Niger, on April 3, 2015, near the Nigerian town of Malam Fatori

Six Nigerien soldiers were killed and three others wounded in the country’s southeast Wednesday in an attack blamed on Boko Haram, the interior ministry said in a statement read on state radio.

The soldiers were killed in an ambush “by Boko Haram terrorists” at around 6 am as they were patrolling some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Diffa, the regional capital near Nigerian border, the statement said.
Boko Haram has suffered substantial setbacks in recent months in the face of a counteroffensive by national armies from the region.

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