Burkinabé soldiers patrol in Ouagadougou after the January 2022 coup. / VOA News (public domain)Denver Newsroom, Jul 6, 2022 / 13:29 pm (CNA).No fewer than 22 people were killed in an attack by suspected jihadi terrorists on a village in Burkina Faso on Sunday.Local Church and government officials have cited 22 confirmed deaths in the July 3 attack on Bourasso, about 14 miles southeast of Nouna. A priest from Nouna s cathedral parish, who said he knew nearly all the victims, told pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need that the attackers "killed 14 people in front of the church." ACN wrote, "Then they went further into the centre of the village and killed 20 others, among them many Christians and followers of traditional African religion."One survivor of the attack told ACN that "The terrorists entered the village of Bourasso on motorbikes around 5pm on Sunday 3 July, and went off again without doing anything… But they came back during the nig
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