“He is a habitual offender who had been arrested several times and released, including the Nigerian judiciary,” the same source said. Elsewhere, security forces in Maine-Soroa town, 80 km west of Diffa, on Thursday managed to halt a suicide bomber who was carrying explosives.
Nigerien military forces joined their Nigerian counterparts as part of a Joint Military operation in battling the terror group and are currently in the Nigerian territory where they have liberated the town of Damasak that had been held by the Islamist sect for a long time.
