July 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least five civilians, including a child, died on Sunday in a double attack perpetrated by unidentified armed persons in the Burkina Faso town of Barsalogho, located in the province of Sanmatenga (north), according to the authorities, who confirmed that eight soldiers were injured and “many terrorists were neutralized” in the clashes.
The Burkina Faso Army has detailed in a statement that a group of assailants attacked a military detachment in the city, while “another group of terrorists attacked civilians.” “The balance points to eight wounded soldiers, who were evacuated and receiving care, and five civilians, including a child, who lost their lives,” he stressed.
Likewise, it has confirmed that “there are operations by land and air to locate the assailants” and has assured that after the attack several bombardments have been carried out against “groups of assailants who were trying to retreat to a terrorist base in Bangmiougou, in the department of Barsalogho “. “Many terrorists were neutralized and the logistics base was destroyed,” she detailed.
“The chief of the Army General Staff bows to the memory of the civilian victims and wishes a speedy recovery to the wounded. He also asks the units participating in the counteroffensive, with the support of associated forces, to do everything possible to locate the assailants to put them out of action”, he stressed in his statement.
Burkina Faso, led by a military junta since the aforementioned coup, has generally experienced a significant increase in insecurity since 2015, which has caused a wave of internally displaced persons and refugees to other countries in the region.
The attacks, the work of both the affiliate of Al Qaeda and that of the Islamic State in the region, have also contributed to increasing inter-community violence and have caused self-defense groups to flourish, to which the Burkinabe government has added ‘volunteers ‘ to help in the fight against terrorism.
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