Thirty people, including 15 soldiers, are killed in suspected militant attacks on villages in northern Burkina Faso – defence ministry
The villages near the border with Niger"were the target of attacks by armed terrorist groups", leading to the death of 11 civilians, the ministry says in a statement.
The villages near the border with Niger "were the target of attacks by armed terrorist groups" on Wednesday, leading to the death of 11 civilians, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.A unit of soldiers and civilian VDP auxiliaries were despatched but 15 troops and four of the auxiliaries were also killed, while "more than ten" of the attackers were "neutralised,” the statement added.
"Several bodies were recovered" said the member of the VDP, which fights militants alongside the Burkinabe defence and security forces.A fifth civilian member of the VDP was killed in a separate attack in Pensa, in the Centre North region. Most of the attacks have been in the northern and eastern regions of the country close to the borders with Mali and Niger, both of which have also faced deadly violence by armed militants.Thousands flee Burkina Faso's north after massacreWednesday's attacks were the worst in the Sahel region since scores of people were killed in June in the village of Solhan – Burkina's highest single-day toll in the history of the insurgency.
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