Sharjah24 – AFP: Eleven soldiers were killed and nine reported "missing" on Friday following an attack on an army position in Dagne in western Niger, days after 69 civilians died in an ambush, the government said.
The attack by "a column of heavily armed terrorists in several vehicles and dozens of motorcycles" killed 11 soldiers, and left one injured, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defence read on public television.
"After fierce fighting, the enemy column was forced to retreat with its dead and wounded," added the statement, which said "air and ground reinforcements dispatched to the area continue to sweep" the locality.
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