Militants ambushed an army patrol in Niger on Friday, killing 15 soldiers and wounding 19, the Defence Ministry said.
The ambush occurred in an area near the border with Mali where violent Islamists have been seeking to expand their reach.
“A search operation is underway to neutralise the terrorists,’’ the ministry statement said of the attack just outside the town of Tiloa.
Militants and allied criminal gangs have long exploited the areas around the vast, desert border between Mali and Niger to launch attacks, even after a French-led military intervention pushed insurgent groups back from northern Mali in 2013.
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