NIAMEY: Boko Haram fighters waged twin attacks on Sunday (Monday in Manila) in Niger, their latest front in a widening regional insurgency, with a market bomb blast sowing panic.

The Islamist militants battled Niger soldiers for two and a half hours starting before dawn on Sunday on the edge of the southeastern town of Diffa, witnesses and humanitarian sources said.

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