NIAMEY, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Twelve soldiers in southeastern
Niger were killed and eight wounded in an overnight attack by
gunmen likely belonging to Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram,
the defence ministry said on Wednesday.
Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve an
Islamist caliphate out of northeast Nigeria, and has carried out
regular raids over loosely guarded borders into neighbouring
Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
On the night of Oct. 29-30, an army position in Diffa region
was "attacked by unidentified armed persons very probably
belonging to the terrorist group Boko Haram," the ministry said
in a radio statement.