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Ouagadougou: Nine people were killed in northern Burkina Faso late on Sunday, in the latest attack in a region struggling with a jihadist revolt, a security official said.
“Armed individuals carried out an attack on the village of Zoura, killing nine people, all of them civilians,” the source said on Monday.
A resident in the nearby town of Kongoussi said the assailants “arrived in the village before the start of curfew (at 6:30 pm) and opened fire shortly afterwards. They also ransacked a shop and made off with cattle.” “Not a day goes by without an gun attack, and the number of displaced people arriving in Kongoussi just keeps going up,” the resident said.
Zoura lies in Bam, one of a swathe of provinces in northern Burkina Faso that have been battling with a four-year-old wave of jihadist violence that came from neighbouring Mali. (AFP)
“Armed individuals carried out an attack on the village of Zoura, killing nine people, all of them civilians,” the source said on Monday.
A resident in the nearby town of Kongoussi said the assailants “arrived in the village before the start of curfew (at 6:30 pm) and opened fire shortly afterwards. They also ransacked a shop and made off with cattle.” “Not a day goes by without an gun attack, and the number of displaced people arriving in Kongoussi just keeps going up,” the resident said.
Zoura lies in Bam, one of a swathe of provinces in northern Burkina Faso that have been battling with a four-year-old wave of jihadist violence that came from neighbouring Mali. (AFP)