Boko Haram Attacks Niger Village Five Reported Killed

Two Niger military officers said on Thursday, at least five people were killed when militants from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group attacked a village in southwestern Niger. The attack occurred overnight Tuesday to Wednesday in the village of Koukodou near the Nigerian border in Niger's Dosso region. Boko Haram, which his seeking to establish an Islamist emirate in northeast Nigeria, has killed thousands of people during a six-year insurgency, but attacks in Niger are relatively rare. The governor of Niger's Diffa region ordered the evacuation of thousands of people living on islands on Lake Chad last week following a deadly attack there by Boko Haram militants late last month.