Togo's army says it was responsible for killing at least seven civilians and wounding two others, who were wrongfully identified as 'militants on the move'
[File] Togolese army said that"everything possible" would be done"to prevent this sort of tragedy from happening again".
Togo's troops are deployed in the area to try and contain a spillover of the threat towards coastal West Africa. On Thursday, Togo's armed forces chief of staff General Dadja Maganaw concluded an aircraft had wrongly targeted the civilians in the village of Margba, in Tone prefecture.'Mistakenly identified' as militants
"It was during those operations that an aircraft patrolling at night, unfortunately, targeted a group of people it had mistakenly identified as jihadists on the move," Maganaw said.
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