Forty dead in Boko Haram attack in Niger

FORTY people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks on two Niger villages, with the attackers pillaging stores and burning homes.

THE governor of the Diffa region in Niger says that an attack by the extremist group Boko Haram based in neighbouring Nigeria has killed 40 people in two villages.

GOVERNOR Yakouba Soumana Goah said on Thursday the attackers pillaged stores and burned homes in the early hours of the morning before withdrawing from the villages located near the border with Nigeria.