Armed men attacked a homemade gold mine in the night from Thursday to Friday, we learned on Saturday.
Le Monde
Twenty people were killed in the night of Thursday, March 31 to Friday, April 1 in the attack of a northern golden golden mine of Burkina Faso. “Several dozens of motorcycle armed men attacked the Kugdiguin’s orppling site” near Barga, a locality of the rural town of Bouroum, in the province of Namentenga, a resident of the region at the region. AFP Saturday.
“Unfortunately, there were some twenty deaths and as many wounded”, which were evacuated at Kaya’s regional hospital (CHR), capital of the North Central region where the attack was produced, he added. Another inhabitant confirmed this assessment, speaking of twenty-two dead and stating that the authors of the attack “are armed individuals who opened fire on the orpalers without distinction”. “We record women and children among the victims,” who were buried in Friday’s day, “he said.
A hospital source of the CHR, attached by AFP, said they received a dozen wounded, but others had been admitted to several other health centers. On March 12, eleven people had been killed in the attack of a homemade gold mine in Baliata, a locality on the axis Dori, capital of the Sahel region, also in northern Burkina. Two days earlier, a similar attack had targeted a wild gold mine of Tondobi, a locality of the town of Seytenga, near the Nigerian border, making a dozen dead, according to safe and local sources.
Nearly a hundred dead in three weeks
In total, for three weeks, nearly eighty civilians and military have been killed in attacks attributed to jihadist armed groups. “The recrudescence of terrorist attacks lately can not and should not be read as the sign of inaction or the inefficiency of what we are deploying on the ground,” said the President by Acting of Burkina Faso, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, author of a coup on January 24th.
He announced the creation of local committees of dialogue with the armed groups who will have the purpose “to develop bridges to allow those who by naivety, by bait of the gain, by constraint or by desire for revenge were trained in an extremist spiral “.
Since its Malian and Nigerian neighbors, Burkina Faso has been taken since 2015 in a spiral of violence attributed to jihadist armed movements, affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, which have made more than 2,000 deaths and 1 , 8 million displaced.