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schema:articleBody	Boko Haram jihadists killed a polling station head in Niger's troubled southeastern Diffa region near Nigeria shortly after polls closed in the country's presidential election runoff, officials told AFP Monday. A high-ranking civil servant in Diffa, requesting anonymity, said the attack occurred at around 8 pm (1900 GMT) late Sunday and left another nine poll workers injured. The Diffa region has suffered frequent attacks by Boko Haram and related groups since 2015, when it was placed under a state of emergency in the poor Sahel country. The victims were top polling station staff recruited by the country's electoral commission, CENI, as well as delegates of the two presidential candidates Mohamed Bazoum and Mahamane Ousmane, a local elected official told AFP. The attack occurred near the village of Garin-Dogo, near Diffa city, he said, adding that the poll workers were transporting ballot boxes and election papers to the city of Gueskerou. The injured are receiving treatment at a local hospital, he added. On Sunday, seven local CENI workers were killed when their vehicle hit a land mine in the western Tillaberi region near Mali, another conflict hotspot. The team had been sent to monitor the polling, the Tillaberi governor said. The so-called tri-border region where Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso converge has been under a state of emergency since 2017. It was the scene of one of the worst civilian massacres suffered by the former French colony in early January, when around 100 people were killed during an attack on two villages. The twin attack occurred on the day election officials announced results from the first round of the presidential vote held on December 27. An immense security challenge also awaits the victor of Sunday's vote with the brutal jihadist insurgency intensifying in the west, while Boko Haram fighters mount incessant attacks in the southeast. Frontrunner Bazoum, 60, is outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou's right-hand man and anointed successor, while Ousmane, 71, became the country's first democratically elected president in 1993, only to be toppled in a coup three years later. bh/ck/jhd/gd/tgb
schema:headline	Jihadists kill poll worker in Niger's Diffa: officials
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