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Ouagadougou: The Burkina Faso army said on Sunday it had killed 32 “terrorists” in two operations in the north of the country, the latest deadly incidents in the West African country struggling to quell a rising jihadist revolt.
One soldier was killed in the military response, which followed an attack on a patrol, an army statement said.
The deaths come less than a month after 37 people were killed in an ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company.
The army said 24 people were killed in the first offensive on Friday and a further eight in a second on Saturday.
The first operation in Yorsala in Loroum province saw a number of women who “had been held and used by the terrorists as sex slaves” freed. Arms, ammunition and other materials were also recovered in the second operation on the outskirts of Bourzanga in Bam province, the army statement added. (AFP)
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