54 Beninese soldiers killed

54 Beninese soldiers were killed and more than a dozen others injured in two simultaneous jihadist attacks in northern Benin on Thursday, April 17. The attacks took place in the so-called “Triple Point” region, where the Beninese army had already been the target of a particularly deadly assault on January 8. The government of Benin has confirmed that 54 soldiers were killed in a deadly attack by suspected jihadist insurgents. Government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji announced the revised the death toll during a press briefing on Wednesday, April 22,2025 significantly raising the earlier count of eight fatalities.

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