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Army airstrike mistakenly kills seven children in Niger

An airstrike by the Nigerian Army targeting ‘bandits’ has killed seven children and wounded five others by mistake in Niger, a local governor told AFP on Sunday.

“There was a mistake with the Nigerian strikes on the border that resulted in victims on our territory in the village of Nachade.

“The victims are 12 children, seven of them dead and five wounded,” the governor of the Maradi region, Chaibou Aboubacar, disclosed.

Details later…

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