Five people, including two soldiers, were killed Thursday in an attack by suspected jihadists in eastern Burkina Faso.
According to AFP, “more than a hundred armed men attacked the locality of Partiaga, in the province of Tapoa (east). Unfortunately, five people, three civilians, and two soldiers, fell,”
Also “more than fifteen terrorists were neutralized” by soldiers and volunteers for the defense of the homeland (VDP, civilian auxiliaries of the army).
However members of civil society and other socio-professional and religious organizations in the province of Tapoa, meeting in Diapaga, its capital, in a statement read to the local press, called on the authorities to “act for loosen the grip of armed terrorist groups” on the municipalities of the province to “avoid the worst”.
Deadly raids attributed to jihadists have multiplied in recent weeks in Burkina. About 60 people died last week and 50 the previous week.