Five people including “two known terrorists” were arrested near Niamey’s international airport on Saturday, the defence ministry said in a statement read out over state radio.
Local officials had said all four militants were killed at the depot, which stores oil and gas for the region. It said a joint regional force of soldiers from Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon were carrying out a sweep on land and from the air “against Boko Haram positions in the Lake Chad basin”.In mid-April, jihadists attacked the central police barracks and took several people hostage in the home of a policeman.
In June 2018, six people were killed when three suicide bombers exploded their suicide belts in a coordinated attack.
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