Gunmen kill 37, 含むing children, in Niger village
NIAMEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) - 身元不明の 武装した men have killed 37 非軍事のs, 含むing 14 children, in an attack on a village in 南西 Niger, によれば 内部の 安全 service 覚え書きs and a 地元の 公式の／役人.
The attack occurred on Monday in the commune of Banibangou, in the Tillabery 地域 近づく the Malian 国境, where Islamist 交戦的なs have 大虐殺d hundreds of 非軍事のs this year.
The 政府 did not 答える／応じる to requests for comment on the （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 株d by two 安全 sources and 確認するd by a 地元の 公式の／役人 who …に出席するd a 集まり funeral in the village.
武装した groups in the Tillabery and Tahoua 地域s have killed over 420 非軍事のs and driven tens of thousands of others from their homes in 2021, New York-based 権利s group Human 権利s Watch said in an Aug. 11 報告（する）／憶測.
The attacks are part of a wider 衝突 spanning the borderlands of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in Africa's Sahel 地域 where jihadists linked to al Qaeda and Islamic 明言する／公表する are 捜し出すing to take 支配（する）／統制する.
Niger alone has seen a sharp rise in attacks on 非軍事のs this year, 含むing some of the worst 大勝するs in living memory. In March, 攻撃者s killed 137 in 連係させた （警察の）手入れ，急襲s in the Tahoua 地域 and in January over 100 people were killed in the same 地域 as Monday's attack. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Moussa Aksar, Boureima Balima and Amadou Gare; 令状ing by Alessandra Prentice and Hereward Holland; Editing by Edward McAllister and Alison Williams)
