More than 30 dead in two attacks this weekend in Burkina Faso

July 5. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least 31 people have died this weekend in two attacks in Bukina Faso, in the town of Bourasso, in the west of the African country, 22 people lost their lives and several were injured on Sunday and in the northern town of Namissiguima they died Saturday nine people.

“The civilian population of the rural commune of Bourasso, Kossi province, in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, was the target of an attack by armed men, the provisional death toll from this attack is 22, several people were injured and material damage was caused,” the governor of the western region of the country, Babo Pierre Bassinga, said in a statement.

He also explained that the wounded were evacuated to the Nouna Medical Center with a surgical unit and to the Dédougou Regional Hospital Center, where they are being treated.

Bassinga has called for calm and has assured the population that the Government will fight the armed groups “for the good of present and future generations.”

On the other hand, the governor of the northern region has reported in another statement that “unidentified armed men carried out an attack on Saturday in the town of Namissiguima”, in the province of Yatenga (north).

“A total of nine people died in the attack, six volunteers for the defense of the Homeland and three civilians,” says the text published on social networks.

In this context, the governor of the northern region has sent his condolences to the relatives and friends of the victims and has condemned “this barbarity”.

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.