No fewer than 20 people have been killed in a militant attack in Burkina Faso’s northern border region, the authorities have disclosed.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that nineteen of the victims are said to have been officers in the military police while one was a civilian.
The militants targeted an outpost near a goldmine in Inata.
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Two days earlier seven police officers were killed in another attack in the region, which borders Mali and Niger.
Islamist militants with links to al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State state group operate in the frontier area.
The three countries, backed by Chad and France, have deployed hundreds of troops there.
This new wave of killings is coming less than 3 months after the army in Burkina Faso disclosed that its soldiers destroyed a βterrorist baseβ while also killing dozens of militants in an operation north of the country.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK