By RFIPosted on 09-01-2020Modified on 09-01-2020 at 21:52
"63 terrorists" and 25 people were killed Thursday, January 9, during the attack on the Chinagoder military camp, according to a press release from the Nigerian Ministry of Defense, one month after the attack by jihadists from the Inates camp in the same sector, which had left 71 dead.
It was the Chinagoder military post, 10 km from the Malian border, which was attacked at 1 p.m. local time. The same combat technique was used by the jihadists as in Inates : shelling and destruction of the GSM network in the village of Dareydey.
But this time the strategy of the jihadists did not work. The soldiers on duty resisted the assaults of the jihadists who tried to take the garrison in pincers. Indeed, these are two columns of terrorists who attacked the soldiers' position.
Several heavily armed vehicles arrived from the west side, direction Akabar in Mali. The second, mainly made up of several dozen motorcycles, came from the east side of the Ikrafane forest in Niger. The soldiers of Chinagoder, who still remember the loss of their 71 comrades at Inates, met with fierce resistance and were able to give the alert by radio to request air support.
French hunting took place very quickly, it is said at the request of the general staff. In 15 minutes Barkhane's 2000 mirages were vertical to Chinagoder, located 290 km north of Niamey. As for the American drones, they carried out two important strikes. The first on a column of fleeing terrorist vehicles caught on the Malian border. The second on a group of motorcycles of the jihadists.
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