It was reported on Sunday night that four soldiers were killed on Saturday and several others were injured in a double attack in the southeastern part of the country in a region bordering Nigeria. A fifth soldier is missing.
It was around 9:30 local time when the military positions of N’Gagam and PK5 in the Diffa Division were targeted. The Nigerian Ministry of Defense mentions in its press release “a double attack carried out by armed terrorist groups from a neighboring country”, which it does not quote. Men who would have come aboard twenty pickups. The statement added that several terrorists were neutralized and that their equipment was destroyed by airstrikes.
The attack was immediately labeled a “terrorist” by the authorities. It intervened the day after the inauguration of the new president Mohamed Bazoum.
This Diffa region, which borders Lake Chad, has been the subject of attention since 2015 many deadly attacks claimed by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in the West Africa group, a dissident branch of Boko Haram. Over the years, jihadists have established several bases in this sector where attacks on civilians have increased since the beginning of the year.
The intensification of these terrorist operations is the biggest challenge for the new head of state, Mohamed Bazoum, invested in their tasks last Friday and who promised to fight very firmly against insecurity.
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