A French soldier patrols Niger in March 2017 (illustration) - Witt / SIPA

Eight people including six French and two Nigeriens were killed Sunday by armed men who came on motorcycles in the Kouré area in Niger, which is home to the last herds of West African giraffes, an official source has learned. .

"There are eight dead: two Nigeriens including a (tourist) guide and a driver, the other six are French," Tillabéri governor Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella told AFP.

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