Stray Nigeria airstrike kills 7 children in Niger

An airstrike by the Nigerian army targeting “bandits” kills seven children and wounds five others by mistake in Niger, a local governor tells AFP.

“There was a mistake with the Nigerian strikes on the border that resulted in victims on our territory in the village of Nachade” on Friday, says Chaibou Aboubacar, the governor of the Maradi region. “The victims are 12 children, seven of them dead and five wounded.”

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