Jihadist militants on motorcycles killed six French nationals and their local guide and driver in a giraffe park in Niger, according to government officials
Jihadist militants on motorcycles killed six French nationals and their local guide and driver in a giraffe park in Niger on Sunday, according to government officials, the latest attack in a nation hailed by western nations as a bulwark against a rising tide of Islamist militancy across West Africa.
The ambush began shortly after 10 a.m., when the French nationals’ tour group entered the Kouré Giraffe Reserve, some 40 miles east of the capital, Niamey, according to senior interior ministry officials and the governor of Tillaberi...
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