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Seven children are reported to have been killed by an improvised bomb explosion in Togo.
Witnesses said they were woken by a loud blast late on Saturday in the Savanes region in the north of the country.
The army is quoted as saying in a statement yesterday that an investigation is ongoing to determine the circumstances of this explosion and identify the perpetrators.
Islamist militants linked to Islamic State and al-Qaeda have attacked numerous targets in a string of countries in the Sahel. END