Seven children are reported to have been killed by an improvised bomb explosion in Togo.
Witnesses said they were woken by a loud blast in the Savanes region in the north of the country.
Islamist militants linked to Islamic State and al-Qaeda have attacked numerous targets in a string of countries in the Sahel.
The Togolese army has been on high alert following the country’s first deadly militant attack in May, when eight soldiers were killed near the border with Burkina Faso.
Togo last month declared a state of emergency in its northern region following the attack.
