French tourists

Six French tourists, along with their driver and guide, are reported to have been shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles in a suspected terrorist attack during a safari in Niger, which lies in a region of West Africa where Boko Haram and groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State operate.

French travellers narrowly avoid holiday disaster after they wrongly booked a hotel in their own country for a visit to the Scottish island of Jura.