(Aljazeera News) Gunmen mounted on pick-up trucks and motorcycles have killed at least 12 paramilitary police and wounded several others in a new attack in Niger’s restive southwest, near the Mali border. The raid on the officers’ base happened in the early hours of Saturday in the town of Ayourou in the Tillaberi region, 200km northwest of the capital, Niamey. It comes after an ambush at the beginning of October killed four Niger and US soldiers along the border, which has been regularly targeted by armed groups. We have launched search operations,” Mohamed Bazoum, interior minister, told AFP news agency on Saturday. Read more of this storySource: Aljazeera News Online(Visited 37 times, 21 visits today)Commentscomments

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