Two villagers were killed during a raid in Niger's troubled south as troops repulsed an attack by militants in another area, security sources said Wednesday. The director of a school and a retired education official were "killed in cold blood" while sleeping in the village of Fantio Tuesday night in the southwestern region of Tillaberi, a security source told AFP. The attackers, who were riding motorcycles, took away cattle, the source added. In mid-May, during the Muslim festival of Eid, raiders killed five people and seriously wounded two others in the same village. Also on Tuesday, soldiers foiled an attack by Boko Haram militants in the volatile Lake Chad region,
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