Eighteen people were killed and 100 homes torched in an attack by
Nigeria's Boko Haram fighters on a southeastern village, local
authorities said on Thursday.
"The toll is 18 dead, 11 hurt,
almost 100 homes burned down" in the village of Wogom, said the mayor of
the nearby town of Bosso, Bako Mamadou.
A humanitarian worker
said the Islamists came from Nigeria and crossed the Komadougou Yobe
river, the border between Niger and Nigeria.
Armed jihadists and
suicide bombers from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group have staged
repeated attacks since February in Niger's southeast Diffa region near
Nigeria, leaving hundreds of people dead.
The last came in late October when they shot dead
13 people in a village near Diffa.
About 150 schools with more than 12 000 pupils have been forced to close due to the attacks in the southeast.
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