IS claims responsibility for deadly Niger attack: SITE

• An attack on a military camp in Niger which left 71 military personnel dead, SITE intelligence group said.
• The Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP) claimed credit for the deadly raid on the Inates military base in Niger.

NIAMEY: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military camp in Niger which left 71 military personnel dead, the SITE intelligence group said Thursday.

"The Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP) claimed credit for the deadly raid on the Inates military base in Niger," SITE, which monitors militant media, said in a statement. It added that ISWAP said it had killed "over a hundred soldiers".

Tuesday's attack in Inates in the western Tillaberi region was the deadliest on Niger's military since the country's militant violence began in 2015.