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Suspected jihadists killed around 10 civilians in northern Burkina Faso, officials said Tuesday, while four people were suspected to have been kidnapped.
“Around 10 civilians were executed” after armed men, likely belonging to the region’s Islamic State branch, attacked residents of Dambam heading to market, a military official said.
The attack took place on Monday in the country’s north near the border with Niger.
Troops “were deployed in the area to reinforce security and search it because four other people” went missing heading to the market in Markoye, he said.
A local official said “terrorists set up a checkpoint on the road between Dambam and Markoye and intercepted all those heading to the market”.
He said the “four people who went missing were kidnapped by the jihadists” as the assailants targeted people on foot, motorcycles and other vehicles.
Another local official told AFP “most of the victims were murdered in a cowardly manner, their throats slit” and vehicles burned….
Markoye is close to the so-called tri-border region of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger that have seen a surge of bloody jihadist attacks….
Its armed forces are poorly trained and equipped against highly mobile jihadist units linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group….
Suspected jihadists killed around 10 civilians in northern Burkina Faso, officials said Tuesday, while four people were suspected to have been kidnapped.
“Around 10 civilians were executed” after armed men, likely belonging to the region’s Islamic State branch, attacked residents of Dambam heading to market, a military official said.
The attack took place on Monday in the country’s north near the border with Niger.
Troops “were deployed in the area to reinforce security and search it because four other people” went missing heading to the market in Markoye, he said.
A local official said “terrorists set up a checkpoint on the road between Dambam and Markoye and intercepted all those heading to the market”.
He said the “four people who went missing were kidnapped by the jihadists” as the assailants targeted people on foot, motorcycles and other vehicles.
Another local official told AFP “most of the victims were murdered in a cowardly manner, their throats slit” and vehicles burned….
Markoye is close to the so-called tri-border region of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger that have seen a surge of bloody jihadist attacks….
Its armed forces are poorly trained and equipped against highly mobile jihadist units linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group….
