NIAMEY: At least Seven Niger soldiers were killed and more than a dozen others wounded this week in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in the country´s southeast, the government said on Friday.?The provisional toll for the cowardly terror attack on Wednesday night in Toummour is Seven dead, seventeen wounded and one soldier missing,? said a cabinet statement. Toummour is located in the Diffa administrative region, which lies on the border with Nigeria and Chad. It has suffered a string of deadly Boko Haram attacks since February 2015, although the area has been relatively calm in recent months.