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2022-06-15 Africa Subsaharan
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At least 50 79 civilians killed as terrorists strike northern Burkina Faso
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least 50 non-combatants were killed in a suspected terrorist attack on the the village of Seytenga, Seno province, in northern Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
"So far, 50 bodies have been found," the government front man Lionel Bilgo said on Monday, adding that the search was continuing and the toll could rise.
He said the attacks came as a result of reprisals for the army’s actions against armed elements.
Burkina Faso, particularly the north and east, has been the target of takfiri
 ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
terrorist attacks since 2015, perpetrated by movements affiliated with al-Qaeda and ISIS, that have left more than 2,000 dead and 1.9 million people displaced.
The government of Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
revealed on Tuesday that soldiers had recovered the bodies of 79 victims killed in an attack in the northern province of Seno over the weekend.
No group has grabbed credit for the armed assault on the town of Seytenga.
Survivors of the attack who managed to flee to a nearby city said that they had been left defenseless after government soldiers left the area.
Burkina Faso has been ruled by the military since a coup ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kabore in January over allegations that he had not done enough to put down the insurgency.
SURVIVORS SAY THEY WERE LEFT DEFENSELESS
The attacks first began last Thursday when an unidentified group killed 11 gendarmes in an attack on a military police post near Seytenga.
The security forces then reportedly retreated to the regional capital of Dori, abandoning the security post and leaving no protection for when the attackers came.
The gang "went from shop to shop, sometimes torching them," one man told AFP news agency. "They opened fire on anyone who tried to run away. They stayed in the town all night."
"They looted homes — they killed anyone they found, men, children. There are so many dead. It's just awful," a woman survivor said.
The government said that over 3,000 people, most of them children, arrived in Dori on Monday after fleeing the attack. A project coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Dori said the number had risen to more than 6,800 by Tuesday.
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