unidentified armed men have attacked this Friday to the population of a village. According to a provisional report, twenty people have been killed.
“twenty persons” were killed Friday during an attack on a market by “unidentified armed individuals” in the East of Burkina Faso, announced the governor of the region.
“Around 12: 00 (local), unidentified armed individuals broke into the market of cattle Namoungou, a village in the commune of Fada n’gourma and attacked the people.” “The provisional toll reported twenty persons killed and many wounded,” said the governor, colonel Saidou Sanou, in a press release.
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“The attackers broke into the market on motorcycles and opened fire on the people”, explained an inhabitant of the locality. “The balance is very heavy, more than twenty dead and it will rise again, because the casualties are many, and have not been quickly supported,” he said.
A sweep operation is underway in the area, said the colonel Sanou, inviting the population to the “greater vigilance but also to a close collaboration with the forces of defence and security”.
A region affected by the atrocities jihadists
This deadly attack reminds the one of the market livestock Kompienbiga, also in the East of the country, which had made thirty of the dead at the end of may.
The eastern and Northern Burkina Faso are the most affected regions by the exactions jihadists who have made more than 1100 people dead and more than a million displaced in the past five years.
Under-equipped and poorly trained forces of the order of Burkina faso are unable to halt the spiral of violence, the jihadists, despite the help of foreign forces, in particular France, presents in the Sahel with 5100 men in the context of the operation antidjihadiste Barkhane.
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The violence of jihadists, mixed with inter-communal conflict, touching the centre of the Sahel, have made a total of 4000 deaths in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in 2019, according to the UN.
