At least five officers were killed in a weekend attack by an armed group in Niger's western Tillaberi region, a local politician said on Sunday.
The region, which is close to Mali, has been rocked by recurrent jihadist attacks.
"On Saturday, an attack targeted a patrol of gendarmes in the town of Sanam, killing five of them," a local Tillaberi politician told AFP.
"The assailants arrived on a motorbikes and targeted the patrol near the village of Abare on its market day."
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