What the records say
- When
- 2023
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 14.09° N, 3.13° E
Tabatol attack
2023 terrorist attack in Niger
On 2 October 2023, over 60 Nigerien soldiers were killed in the village of Tabatol, Niger. The soldiers had been reinforcing a Nigerien outpost that had been attacked by the Islamic State – Sahil Province (ISGS) earlier in the day, and the reinforcements were attacked a second time by over 100 militants from the Islamic State's Sahel Province, who used IEDs and "kamikaze vehicles".
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At least 29 soldiers are killed during an ambush by Islamic extremists in the Tahoua Region, involving suicide car bombs and bombings”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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