A refueling convoy of the populations was the target of a terrorist attack on Monday, near the locality of Gaskindé. “The attack unfortunately caused human and material damage” indicates the army.
Le Monde with AFP
An attack by alleged jihadists in Gaskindé, northern Burkina Faso, left a “dozen deaths”, mainly soldiers, reported on Monday at the France-Presse agency for security sources. “A refunding convoy of the populations, escorted by a unit of the 14th RIA (Inter-Armes regiment) for Djibo, was the target of a terrorist attack today (Monday), near the locality of Gaskindé”, locality Located in the Soum province, the Sahel region, said an army press release.
“The attack unfortunately caused human and material damage”, continues the text, specifying that “a complete assessment will be established as soon as possible”. There was a provisional assessment of a “ten dead among the elements of the detachment. We also recorded many seriously injured”. “The statement is still continuing and reinforcements have been deployed in the area to provide assistance to the victims and secure the area,” said the same source.
two million people displaced
Sunday, another convoy escorted by the army, who left the day before Dori, chief town of the Sahel region, to supply the city of Sebba, was the target of an attack on the improvised explosive machine , according to security sources.
Four people were injured during this incident, and the convoy arrived on Monday, welcomed in a popular jubilation. On Saturday, two soldiers and two civilian army supplies were killed during a “terrorist” attack on a patrol in the province of Tapoa, a region in eastern Burkina, border of Niger and Benin, according to the army.
Burkina Faso, where soldiers took power in January by promising to make the anti-jihadist fight their priority, is confronted as several neighboring countries with the violence of armed movements affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the State group Islamic.
Since 2015, recurring attacks have killed thousands of people and caused the movement of some two million people.