About 20 worshippers were also injured in the attack carried out last Friday by assailants from the so-called Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) – an ISIL affiliate. The ISL militants had surrounded Fambita Mosque and randomly shot at worshippers, according to a statement from Niger’s defence ministry. They then reportedly set a market and several homes on fire. “The egregious attack on the Fambita Mosque – during Friday prayers in the last 10 days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan – was clearly intended to cause as many civilian casualties as possible,” Turk said. This is “in stark violation of international human rights law and humanitarian law,” he said.