Other MoA event in Tillabéri, Tillabéri area, Niger on Tue 17th August 2021

At least 37 civilians, including a dozen women and children, were killed on Monday in western Niger during an attack by suspected jihadists in a village in the Tillabéri region, near Mali local sources told AFP. Another murderous attack in the “three borders” area. Suspected jihadists killed at least 37 civilians, including a dozen women and children, during the attack on Monday on a Nigerien village in the Tillabéri region, near Mali, said Tuesday (August 17th). from local sources to AFP. "The attack took place in Darey-Daye at around 3 p.m. (2 p.m. GMT)" on Monday "by armed men on motorcycles" who shot "at people cultivating their fields," said one. elected local, specifying that “the toll is heavy: there were 37 deaths including four women and thirteen minors”. Four women were also injured, he said. A journalist from the region confirmed the attack, which he described “as very bloody”. “They found the victims in their fields and they shot at anything that moved,” he said. On March 15, suspected jihadists massacred a total of 66 people in attacks on Darey-Daye and on vehicles returning from the large weekly market in Banibangou. Since the beginning of the year, suspected jihadists have increased bloody assaults against civilians in the Banibangou department, a landlocked area in the northeast of the Tillabéri region, located in the so-called “three borders” area between Niger , Burkina Faso and Mali. This area has been the scene for years of bloody actions by jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group committed against civilians and soldiers.