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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) - Rebels attacked an army base in Niger on Friday, killing 13 and wounding 30 soldiers, and taking at least 47 prisoners, according to a government statement.
The statement read on national TV by government spokesman Mohamed Ben Omar said a group of heavily armed men attacked security forces early Friday in a remote Sahara outpost not far from the Libyan border.
In a radio address soon after, Aghali Alambo, the commander of the Niger Movement for Justice, an ethnic Tuareg group that earlier this week claimed responsibility for an assault on a local airport, said his group was behind the attack.
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