Jihadist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar “supervised” twin suicide bombings which killed at least 20 people in Niger on Thursday, the Mauritanian agency Alakhbar quoted a spokesman for his group as saying.
“It was Belmokhtar who himself supervised the operational plans of attacks,” which “targeted elite French forces assuring the security of installations of the nuclear operator (Areva) and an Algerian military base,” said El-Hassen Ould Khalil, spokesman for Algerian jihadist Belmokhtar’s “Signataries in Blood” group.
Jihadist Belmokhtar "supervised" Niger bombings: spokesman
