Gunmen killed 8 people at a wildlife reserve in Niger, on Sunday. The victims were 6 French humanitarian workers, a Nigerian driver and tour guide as said by the officials. They were visiting the Kouré reserve in an area known as the Giraffe Zone which is home to the remaining West African giraffes. They were there for less than an hour and then attacked by the gunmen.
They were shot, their car put on fire and their dead bodies were left in the sand. Djibo Hama, a spokesman for the Association of Kouré’s Giraffe Guides, said it was horrible to see their dead bodies and they were brutally shot.
Data source: DailyJamesOnline