PostedJuly 11, 2022, 01:42
The explosion, which killed seven people and injured two, occurred near the border with Burkina Faso.
A patrol of Togolese soldiers (illustration).
AFP
An explosion in northern Togo killed seven people and injured two in the night from Saturday to Sunday, the army said, without giving further details. The explosion occurred in the prefecture of Tône, near the border with Burkina Faso, where a Sahelian jihadist insurgency threatens to spread to coastal West African countries.
Last month, Togo declared a state of emergency in its northern regions due to the threat of attacks by Islamist militants from across the border. “An investigation is open to elucidate the circumstances of this explosion and identify the perpetrators,” said the army statement.
She did not give more details on this explosion, which occurred in the village of Magba, and did not qualify it as an attack. Eight Togolese soldiers were killed in May in an attack in northern Togo. Togolese troops are deployed in this region to try to contain a jihadist threat pushing south from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, where militants linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group operate.
(AFP)
