At least 44 civilians lost their lives and 13 others were wounded, four of them seriously, in a terrorist attack on Friday in Fambita, a village in the Tillab\u00e9ri region of western Niger. The announcement was made Friday evening by Niger’s Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Mohamed Toumba, on the T\u00e9l\u00e9-Sahel television channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
According to the Minister, the attack took place at around 2:00 pm local time (1:00 pm GMT), when Muslim worshippers were gathered for Friday collective prayer. Heavily armed terrorists, affiliated to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS), surrounded the mosque before carrying out a massacre of unprecedented violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Not limiting themselves to this massacre, the assailants then systematically set fire to the market and homes before retreating, the minister denounced. ” These heinous crimes will not go unpunished”,<\/em> he asserted, adding that “the perpetrators, co-perpetrators, sponsors and accomplices will be hunted down and brought to justice to answer for their acts”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Fambita is located in the so-called “three borders”<\/em> zone (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso), a region that in recent years has become a hotbed of insecurity due to the growing activity of jihadist groups.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least 44 civilians lost their lives and 13 others were wounded, four of them seriously, in a terrorist attack on Friday in Fambita, a village in the Tillab\u00e9ri region of western Niger. The announcement was made Friday evening by Niger’s Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Mohamed Toumba, on the T\u00e9l\u00e9-Sahel television channel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":492287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"pays":[143],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-520110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-security","8":"pays-niger-west-africa"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520110"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=520110"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=520110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}