On March 17, 2022, suspected Islamic State - Sahel Province militants attacked a bus traveling from Burkina Faso to Téra, Niger, in the Nigerien village of Petel Kole, killing at least twenty-one people including two Nigerien police officers.

Throughout the jihadist insurgency in Niger, the Burkinabe-Nigerien border, in particular the tripoint area between Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, has been a hotbed of jihadist violence by groups such as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (which renamed to IS - Sahel in March 2022).

[2] An October 2021 attack killed three Nigerien police officers and wounded several others at Petel Kole.

[3] The bus was carrying dozens of people, and lots of fruits and vegetables at the time.

[2] Nigerien security sources claimed to have recaptured the Petel Kole border post after the attack, and deployed reinforcements to the area.