Gunmen killed nine soldiers and officers in an attack on a police station and military unit in northeastern Burkina Faso on Saturday, security sources said, in the latest deadly assault in a country battling an Islamist insurgency.
The “large-scale terrorist attack unfortunately resulted” in the deaths of nine people, the source told AFP. The source added that the attack caused “significant material damage” and the attackers took weapons with them during their withdrawal.Burkina Faso, which shares a border with Mali and Niger, is caught up in an Islamist insurgency in which increasingly frequent attacks have claimed more than 800 lives and displaced over 800,000 people since 2015.
Five of the abductees, including the pastor, were found dead three days later, while two women survived, according to the regional governor.
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