30. At around 6am, a 4x4 pick-up vehicle packed with explosives driven by suicide bombers broke through the security barrier and exploded inside the military camp, killing several people. 31. A second vehicle entered the camp and the people on board opened fire on the soldiers. 32. The shooting lasted for several hours, then the terrorists took refuge in a dormitory killing some occupants; they claimed to hold some senior officers as hostages. 33. The attackers also placed improvised explosive devices everywhere, hiding some under the corpses of soldiers. 34. French special forces arrived at the Agadez camp as reinforcements and the next morning launched an assault on the dormitory, located near the barracks. 35. The two jihadists entrenched in the buildings were then neutralised. 36. The Agadez attack caused the death of 24 soldiers, including one Cameroonian, several wounded and significant material loss. 37. In the end, in Agadez, eight terrorists were killed, seven weapons recovered, three explosive belts made with defensive grenades and nail charges and a 60 mm calibre mortar were seized. 38. A crumpled phone belonging to one of the terrorists and containing an Orange number was found at the scene, as well as a letter. 39. About thirty minutes after the Agadez explosion, a second, almost simultaneous attack occurred near the town of Arlit, 240 km further north, against SOMAIR's uranium mine. 40. Car bombers detonated themselves with a car bomb in front of the uranium processing plant's power station. The result was one dead and about fifty injured, with significant property damage estimated at several billions. 41. The almost simultaneous attacks in Agadez and Arlit gave rise to the opening of a preliminary investigation at the level of the central counter8