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OUAGADOUGOU The death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132, the government said on Saturday, after armed…
At least 100 people have been killed by gunmen in a "barbaric" attack on a village in Burkina Faso, the country's deadliest in years, authorities have said. The local market and several homes in Solhan - a northern village in Yagha province bordering Niger, in the Sahel region of Africa - were also burned down, government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said in a statement. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore described the assault as "barbaric".
Burkina Faso says at least 100 civilians killed in attack
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NIAMEY, Niger Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country s deadliest attack in years.
The attack took place Friday evening in Solhan village, in the Sahel s Yagha province, government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said in a statement blaming jihadists. The local market and several homes were also burned down in the area toward the border of Niger, he said.
President Roch Marc Christian Kabore called the attack barbaric.
This is the deadliest attack recorded in Burkina Faso since the West African country was overrun by jihadists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State about five years ago, said Heni Nsaibia, senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.