Residents and local media report that the victim is a 73-year-old who was taken in the city of Agadez.
An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in Niger, the first time a European citizen has been seized in the country since the military took power in 2023.
Austria’s Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs said on Sunday that its embassy in Algeria, which is also responsible for Niger, had been informed of the kidnap of an Austrian woman in Agadez and was in contact with authorities on the ground.
A Nigerien security source told the Reuters news agency that the woman was…