In an announcement by Minister of Defense of Burkina Faso, General Barthelemy Sibore, reported that “military detachment in Girgou“, In the central-northern part of the country,” became a target of a terrorist attack “yesterday Monday” around 05:00 “(local time; at 08:00 Greek time).
Fourteen members of the country’s armed forces have been killed in an attack on a military unit in the north of the country. Africa, according to the announcement from the Ministry of Defense.
And while sources close to the security forces initially spoke of at least nine dead.
According to the aforementioned announcement by the general Simbore: “We counted 14 military casualties during the fighting, seven wounded were taken” to hospital, while “many terrorists were neutralized (killed) during retaliation”. The military, faced with a “large number of heavily armed” attackers, showed “great fighting spirit” and treated them with “vigor”, the minister continued. “Immediately land and air counterattack to neutralize the attackers.”
Since 2015, attacks and ambushes are becoming more frequent
In addition to the casualties, the material damage “is enormous”, a source close to the security forces told AFP, as the perpetrators of the attack either “set fire” or “snatched” equipment.
THE Burkina Faso, a poor country in the west Africa, has been facing since 2015 more and more frequent and deadly attacks and ambushes of jihadist organizations, especially in its northern and eastern parts, as well as in neighboring countries, Mali and Niger.
However, there are occasional attacks in the south, such as on Saturday, when two soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device was detonated in Laraben, near the border with Ivory Coast.
Five other soldiers on a reconnaissance mission in Μενταό, in the northern part of the country, were killed last Wednesday when an improvised anti-personnel mine exploded, according to the general staff.
On September 15, a soldier was killed and two others were injured in an attack on a unit in the eastern part of the country, which borders Niger. Three days earlier, in the same area, six gendarmes were killed in an attack by so-called jihadists against a convoy accompanied by fuel tankers destined for the mining company. Semafo Boungou, a subsidiary of Canadian Endeavour Mining.
Attacks and ambushes in Burkina Faso attributed to jihadist organizations who swear allegiance to either Islamic State (IS) or al Qaeda, combined with outbreaks of inter-ethnic and inter-ethnic violence, have claimed the lives of some 2,000 people and forced more than 1.4 million others to flee their homes, according to official figures.
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