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25 killed, 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger

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25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bombs on Thursday hit a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, souces said.

20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide- attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a subsidiary of the French group Areva in Arlit in the northern Niger.

The attacks were made on Thursday morning by Niger’s National Defence Minister Karidjo Mahamadou who issued a press statement.

There were also 30 people who were injured, among them 16 soldiers and 14 civilians, the same source said.

“This Thursday, at around 5:30 a.m, two groups of individuals armed with explosives on board Toyota 4×4, simultaneously drove into the Agadez military barracks and the factory of Somair mining company in Arlit with a firm determination to carry out attacks,” the statement from the defence minister indicated.

“These terrorist attacks carried out by the suicide-bombers were contained by our soldiers who, despite the heavy loss, managed to neutralize the assailants some of whom decided to blow themselves up,” the minister said in the statement.

The Agadez death toll was 20 soldiers and 16 of them injured, while 3 assailants were killed. In Arlit, 14 civilians were injured while two assailants were killed.

The defence minister said that the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an islamist group operating in northern Mali, claimed responsibility for the twin suicide attacks.

“The situation is under control and the search for other assailants has already been launched,” the minister said while also promising to inform the public about how the situation develops.

A three days national mourning period will be observed across the entire national territory starting on Thursday.

“The Nigerien armed forces would wish to reaffirm their commitment to defend and protect Niger and its people at all cost, ” the national defence minister reiterated.

It’s worth noting that since the beginning of the crisis in neighbouring northern Mali, these are the first attacks on the Nigerien territory.

Xinhua

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28 responses to “25 killed, 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Is Nastyrallah exporting his Toyota 4×4’s too? 😉
    (Better start tracking Toyotas everywhere.)
    ‘Movement for Oneness and Jihad’ … let’s blow all of us up together. Great philosophy. :-)))

    1. dateam Avatar
      dateam

      5th seriously they are 2 different things…

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        🙂 Yah dateam .. but there’s always ‘business’ going on, and one never knows. 😉

        1. dateam Avatar
          dateam

          Look around at what is going on….”business” yes the only thing in niger uranium thats all it has…look deeply into what is happening…these guys are being used by the big players to destabilise …look at it iraq,egypt,tunisia,pakistan,nigeria and on and on all the minorities being attacked…..by who? niger is one of the poorest countries in the world….yet they now have militants that can pull this off? where is their funding coming from?

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Who wants Uranium? And cheap?
            And also hates France?

          2. dateam Avatar
            dateam

            are you serious? The americans, hallibourton, israelis…their used for weapons…ask the iraqis and southern lebanese what depleted uranium in weapons does to people,soil etc….the americans dont really like the french and the french the same..they make movies about it…you can also ask in nigeria who wants diamonds? are the poor nigerians getting anything out of digging them up or the big players?

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Sure I’m serious. For the weapons, it’s after-use of power plant fuel. Fuel is #1. Bombs #2. Depleted, it makes ‘specials’ and saves storage costs. Had to find some way of trying to get rid of the damn stuff after power usage. 😉
            Ok, you don’t like the grim humour.
            Don’t need to ask … just look at Chernobyl countryside … or now a part of Japan.
            Bimini Atoll People still hoping to return ‘home’ in some future century.
            There’s huge amounts of it going to need ‘looking after’ for a long long time – not counting the ‘melt-down’ sites. Man’s follies for ‘energy’ added to by idiots wanting ‘best weapons’ – eventually everyone dies. And Iran is certainly as hungry for ‘power’ as any of the others. It even sounds like they cornered the market on ‘boost-it’ centrifuges.
            I mean, really, how many ‘medical uses’ can they need to put it to?
            In an age when ‘tech’ has viable solar, wind, and tidal alternatives.
            At least, so far, they have decided to NOT shoot it to the sun for disposal – just in case a rocket fails before it clears the planet. One good thought.
            And like the Phosphorous and Bomblet specials, some of us think none of it should be allowed at all. Even for ‘power’.
            (A little in a Mars Rover is ok … or the medical use … that’s research.)

          4. dateam Avatar
            dateam

            Now your going way off…whats iran got to do with this they have their own uranium…did you know iran holds 7% of the worlds minerals? Uranium,gold,silver,copper zinc, etc….heres a question for you to think about…do you think iran would be the way it is today had it not been for the forced overthrow of mossadeq in 1953 by the americans and brits? Considering the year before he was voted by time magazine as person of the year for his democratic reforms? Do you think they would have overthrown him if he didn’t want to nationalise the oil sector?

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Hey, I can float theories too … it’s a free blog. 😉
            But I was talking about nuclear power. And radiation. And I don’t care who wants it. You asked where funding comes from. I floated a theory. 🙂
            I’m also ‘for’ nationalizing certain national treasures. But who listens to me?
            And frankly, with the ability many governments have shown to do it … well … bureaucracies are never as efficient as private enterprise, are they.

          6. dateam Avatar
            dateam

            I know…i just have have this habit of never taking things at face value and always looking deeply into things….i guess its trying to figure out all this madness….you have sides supporting sides and at the same time watching them supporting terror yet call them moderates and partners in peace…its as i say one big circus.

          7. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Diamonds are a different subject … what else can you turn a girl’s head with?
            And what do all males want to do? 😉

          8. AntiFSA Avatar
            AntiFSA

            I tell you what 5th, I don’t want to only to turn her head. 🙂

          9. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Yah. I know … neither did I … 😉

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Is Nastyrallah exporting his Toyota 4×4’s too? 😉
    (Better start tracking Toyotas everywhere.)
    ‘Movement for Oneness and Jihad’ … let’s blow all of us up together. Great philosophy. :-)))

    1. dateam Avatar
      dateam

      5th seriously they are 2 different things…

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        🙂 Yah dateam .. but there’s always ‘business’ going on, and one never knows. 😉

        1. dateam Avatar
          dateam

          Look around at what is going on….”business” yes the only thing in niger uranium thats all it has…look deeply into what is happening…these guys are being used by the big players to destabilise …look at it iraq,egypt,tunisia,pakistan,nigeria and on and on all the minorities being attacked…..by who? niger is one of the poorest countries in the world….yet they now have militants that can pull this off? where is their funding coming from?

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Who wants Uranium? And cheap?
            And also hates France?

          2. dateam Avatar
            dateam

            are you serious? The americans, hallibourton, israelis…their used for weapons…ask the iraqis and southern lebanese what depleted uranium in weapons does to people,soil etc….the americans dont really like the french and the french the same..they make movies about it…you can also ask in nigeria who wants diamonds? are the poor nigerians getting anything out of digging them up or the big players?

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Sure I’m serious. For the weapons, it’s after-use of power plant fuel. Fuel is #1. Bombs #2. Depleted, it makes ‘specials’ and saves storage costs. Had to find some way of trying to get rid of the damn stuff after power usage. 😉
            Ok, you don’t like the grim humour.
            Don’t need to ask … just look at Chernobyl countryside … or now a part of Japan.
            Bimini Atoll People still hoping to return home in some future century.
            There’s huge amounts of it going to need ‘looking after’ for a long long time – not counting the ‘melt-down’ sites. Man’s follies for ‘energy’ added to by idiots wanting ‘best weapons’ – eventually everyone dies. And Iran is certainly as hungry for ‘power’ as any of the others. It even sounds like they cornered the market on ‘boost-it’ centrifuges.
            I mean, really, how many ‘medical uses’ can they need to put it to?
            In an age when ‘tech’ has viable solar, wind, and tidal alternatives.
            At least, so far, they have decided to NOT shoot it to the sun for disposal – just in case a rocket fails before it clears the planet. One good thought.
            And like the Phosphorous and Bomblet specials, some of us think none of it should be allowed at all.

          4. dateam Avatar
            dateam

            Now your going way off…whats iran got to do with this they have their own uranium…did you know iran holds 7% of the worlds minerals? Uranium,gold,silver,copper zinc, etc….heres a question for you to think about…do you think iran would be the way it is today had it not been for the forced overthrow of mossadeq in 1953 by the americans and brits? Considering the year before he was voted by time magazine as person of the year for his democratic reforms? Do you think they would have overthrown him if he didn’t want to nationalise the oil sector?

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Hey, I can float theories too … it’s a free blog. 😉

          6. dateam Avatar
            dateam

            I know…i just have have this habit of never taking things at face value and always looking deeply into things….i guess its trying to figure out all this madness….you have sides supporting sides and at the same time watching them supporting terror yet call them moderates and partners in peace…its as i say one big circus.

          7. 5thAlcoholicAnonymous Avatar
            5thAlcoholicAnonymous

            yes professor, we are all ears professor

          8. 5thAlcoholicAnonymous Avatar
            5thAlcoholicAnonymous

            you seem to be a nuclear physicist also

          9. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Diamonds are a different subject … what else can you turn a girl’s head with?
            And what do all males want to do? 😉

          10. AntiFSA Avatar
            AntiFSA

            I tell you what 5th, I don’t want to only to turn her head. 🙂

          11. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Yah. I know … neither did I … 😉

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