United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk has condemned the recent attack on a mosque in Kokorou village, western Niger.
NAN reports that no fewer than 44 worshippers were killed and 20 injured in the attack last Friday.
Assailants from the so-called Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, ISGS, – an ISIL affiliate – had surrounded Fambita Mosque and randomly shot at worshippers, according to a statement from Niger’s defence ministry.
They then…
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