Over 30 Killed In Eastern Burkina Faso Attack

PHOTO USED TO DEPICT THE STORY File photo of soldiers from the French Army holds detectors while searching for the presence of IED during the Burkhane Operation in northern Burkina Faso. PHOTO: MICHELE CATTANI / AFPGunmen killed around 30 people at a livestock market in the eastern Burkina Faso town of Kompienbiga, local residents said Sunday, in an attack blamed by a security source on jihadists.

A second resident said: “It’s hard to say how many people were killed. There were bodies in the market, and others in the bush.” A local official put the death toll at “several dozen” including vendors and residents, while a security source said “armed terrorists” carried out the attack, while declining to estimate how many were killed.

The east and north of the former French colony are the hardest hit by attacks by jihadists, who have killed more than 900 people and caused some 860,000 people to flee their homes in the past five years.

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