A total of 15 people (eight paramilitaries and seven gendarmes) were killed in an attack in the central-northern prefecture Burkina Fasoaccording to what imgs close to the security forces told AFP on Friday.
A patrol of the gendarmerie and the Volunteers for the defense of the homeland (Volontaires pour la défense de la patrie, VDP) “fell into an ambush in the area of ​​Koumestegka”, and in the ensuing battle seven gendarmes and eight auxiliaries of the armed forces lost their lives, a first img said. A second img confirmed the account.
The ambush had been set “about a hundred heavily armed men”according to the second img.
“We recorded the deaths of the guards on Wednesday” and “later, in a clearing operation” of the security forces “the bodies of the Volunteers were found”, he clarified.
“There are also injuredwhich were served in Kaya (the capital of the central-northern prefecture), as well as great material damage”, he added.
Attacks attributed to jihadists do not stop multiplying recently in Burkina Faso.
Also on Wednesday, eight people, including two Burkina Faso nationals working for the non-governmental organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), were killed in two separate attacks.
On Monday, six civilians were killed in a raid in the central-western prefecture, and last week, around fifty people were killed, 31 — 22 civilians and nine members of the security forces and the military — in an attack on a community in the north of the country. .
Burkina Faso, theater of two military coups in 2022, has been faced since 2015 with the escalating violence of the jihadists who appeared in Mali a few years earlier and spread beyond its borders.
Attacks by organizations that pledge allegiance to either Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State have claimed the lives of thousands of people and displaced around two million others. Jihadist organizations control more than 40% of Burkina Faso’s territory, according to official figures.
Captain Ibrahim Traore, who was sworn in on October 21, 2022 as the new interim president, following the September 30 military coup that ousted Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Santogo Dhamiba, has set the goal of recapturing “the territories occupied by the hordes of terrorists.” .
Source: News Beast
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