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and thirty kilometers from the Malian border. The attackers arrived on motorcycles and pickups, and fighting lasted from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. Nigerien special forces and French forces arrived on scene and intervened in the attack, but the jihadists destroyed a communications post and fled.
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